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发帖数: 159 | 1 New York Times, February 27, 2001
Claude Shannon, Mathematician, Dies at 84
By GEORGE JOHNSON
Dr. Claude Elwood Shannon, the American mathematician and computer scientist
whose theories laid the groundwork for the electronic communications networks
that now lace the earth, died on Saturday in Medford, Mass., after a long fight
with Alzheimer's disease. He was 84.
Understanding, before almost anyone, the power that springs from encoding
information in a simple language of 1's and 0's, Dr. Shann |
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f******k
发帖数: 297 | 2 just for fun, copied from google's cache...
[comment: so it seems to me that Shannon's greatness is that he went
beyond the capabilities of mathematics, and let the mathematicians
follow his idea. Not very many researchers in the history can guide
mathematicians, most of researchers are only slaves of math, but the
greatest ones should be the leaders of math]
...
Kolmogorov immediately recognized that Shannon's entropy provided
the key to the long-standing isomorphism problem of ergodic theory. |
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b*****t
发帖数: 1700 | 3 engineering和math的insight不同
Shannon文章出来的时候Doob专门写了review批评他的文章，多年后Doob说这是他做的
最错的事情
Shannon倒是MIT数学系的PhD，Berger是Harvard应用数学的PhD
但有意思的是Shannon是EE的本和硕，Berger是EE的本，这是他们为什么会有
engineering的insight的原因吧
Gallager是这么评价Shannon的：
Shannon was almost the opposite of an applied mathematician.
Applied mathematicians solve mathematical models formulated by others (
perhaps with minor changes to suit the tools of their trade).
Shannon was a creator of models — his genius lay in determining the core of
the problem, r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 172 | 4 Think about Euler, the GREATEST mathematician in history. He solved
a lot of application problems. And many of the solutions were developed to a
whole branch of mathematics derived from Euler's ideas.
The most important point in math should be the idea. Theorems are also
important, but be to frank, they are logically implied in the original
ideas.
I think that is the reason why sometimes a physicist even engineer could
contribute more than an ordinary mathematician to math. For example, Newton, |
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w****1
发帖数: 4931 | 5 Anyone who claims this don't really understand physics.
Let me give you some examples. Mathematicians are often interested in very
general properties of theories, and global aspects (i.e. topology).
Physicists (by which I mean string theorists :) ) are more interested in the
dynamics. Many things physicists are interested in are uninteresting to
mathematicians. For instance, the cusp anomalous dimension of N=4 SYM, which
is extremely interesting to string theorists, would hardly draw any
interes |
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m******0
发帖数: 33 | 6 Jacob Lurie Named Professor of Mathematics at Harvard
Cambridge, Mass. - December 18, 2008 - Mathematician Jacob Lurie, whose
expertise ranges across algebraic geometry, topology, and algebra, has been
named professor of mathematics in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.
Lurie, 31, was previously associate professor of mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he has held since 2007.
"Professor Lurie is a mathematician of impressi |
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发帖数: 994 | 7 Of cause, "现代西方数学不过是把俄罗斯数学不为人之的定理用英语写出来而已" is
just meant to be an exageration, I doubt even the one who said it seriously
believed it.
I heard another side of the story: some Math professor in US complaint that
Russian Math historians had such a huge vanity that they named every big
math theorem after some Russian mathematician, even when there was no solid
evidence that the mathematician in question deserved it -- and what was more
annoying: the date they claimed that the theorem was proved by |
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g****t
发帖数: 31659 | 8 苏联人确实更早证明过很多东西。
Of cause, "现代西方数学不过是把俄罗斯数学不为人之的定理用英语写出来而已" is
just meant to be an exageration, I doubt even the one who said it seriously
believed it.
I heard another side of the story: some Math professor in US complaint that
Russian Math historians had such a huge vanity that they named every big
math theorem after some Russian mathematician, even when there was no solid
evidence that the mathematician in question deserved it -- and what was more
annoying: the date they claimed that the theor |
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c**********r
发帖数: 944 | 9 我也觉得tenured可以算中文意义里的mathematician了
non-tenure可以叫junior mathematician 呵呵 |
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发帖数: 438 | 10 Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman has won the Millennium Prize of the
US-based Clay Mathematics Institute (Massachusetts) for the resolution of
the Poincare conjecture, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Institute.
http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/19-03-2010/112643-perelman-0
Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman has won the Millennium Prize of the
US-based Clay Mathematics Institute (Massachusetts) for the resolution of
the Poincare conjecture, RIA Novosti reports wi |
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发帖数: 54 | 11 WEI ZHANG TO RECEIVE 2010 SASTRA RAMANUJAN PRIZE
http://www.math.ufl.edu/sastra-prize/2010.html
The 2010 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Wei Zhang, who is now a
Benjamin Pierce Instructor at the Department of Mathematics, Harvard
University, USA. This annual prize which was established in 2005, is for
outstanding contributions by very young mathematicians to areas influenced
by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The age limit for the prize has been set
at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so ... 阅读全帖 |
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R*j
发帖数: 248 | 12 最近看了本书：Is God A Mathematician. NRP在采访书的作者时，作者说，他周围的
一些pure mathematician感到自豪的就是他们的研究没有直接的实际应用。 |
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R*j
发帖数: 248 | 13 最近看了本书：Is God A Mathematician. NRP在采访书的作者时，作者说，他周围的
一些pure mathematician感到自豪的就是他们的研究没有直接的实际应用。 |
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发帖数: 133 | 14 Mathematicians are divided into birds and frogs, as Freeman Dyson suggests (
cf his article in Notice AMS). What you are talking about are birds, and I
admire these theory builders and question proposers. But of course not all
mathematicians are birds, and there should be a lot of frogs as well, whose
major concern is to dig deeper and deeper on some annoyingly hard questions.
It is not easy to judge these people all together. And more importantly, it
may not make sense doing so. |
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发帖数: 668 | 15 Mathematics is a beautiful thing.Beautiful means simple and elegant. There
are lot of things in mathematics as ugly as this world. Mathematician is
just people who work in the field of mathematics. What we called 数学家
should be translate as mathematical genius. Very few people could be called
in that way and it's
really an honor.
Too bad, mathematician as a career, you could not earn as much money as the
outside world. The people who keep seeking their dreams with many sacrifices
should be respec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 668 | 16 Mathematics is a beautiful thing.Beautiful means simple and elegant. There
are lot of things in mathematics as ugly as this world. Mathematician is
just people who work in the field of mathematics. What we called 数学家
should be translate as mathematical genius. Very few people could be called
in that way and it's
really an honor.
Too bad, mathematician as a career, you could not earn as much money as the
outside world. The people who keep seeking their dreams with many sacrifices
should be respec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 644 | 17 The 2012 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Professor Zhiwei Yun,
who has just completed a C. L. E. Moore Instructorship at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and will be taking up a faculty position at
Stanford
University in California this fall. The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was
established
in 2005 and is awarded annually for outstanding contributions by very young
mathematicians to areas influenced by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The
age limit for the prize has been set at 32 be... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 125 | 18 明明德乔治早几个月作出的结果，为什么很多人同情那什，为他没得菲尔兹奖惋惜？
wiki上的也很不公平，
mathematician, Ennio de Giorgi, who had published a proof a couple of months
[vague] before Nash achieved his proof. Each took different routes to get to
their solutions. The two mathematicians met each other at the Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University during the summer
of 1956. It has been speculated that if only one of them had solved the
problem, he would have been given the Fields Medal for the proof.[3]
几个月啊，幸好乔... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 180 | 19 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/science/solving-a-riddle-of-p
Solving a Riddle of Primes
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: May 20, 2013
Three and five are prime numbers — that is, they are divisible only by 1
and by themselves. So are 5 and 7. And 11 and 13. And for each of these
pairs of prime numbers, the difference is 2.
Mathematicians have long believed that there are an infinite number of such
pairs, called twin primes, meaning that there will always be a larger pair
than the largest one found.... 阅读全帖 |
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s*********h
发帖数: 6288 | 20 no offense to female maths worker.
"there were two female mathematician. One is not female. The other is not
mathematician."
j/k |
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发帖数: 6288 | 21 no offense to female maths worker.
"there were two female mathematician. One is not female. The other is not
mathematician."
j/k |
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s*****V
发帖数: 21731 | 22 http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-81613-239600.html
闲论Atiyah-Singer指标定理
几番被人转载，已经不知道原文作者在哪儿了。感觉很不错，值得看一看
Nowadays, mathematicians tend to over-abstract things that in fact cannot be
further abstracted, which not only dilutes the essence of concepts but also
drives away potential students and users, and eventually, if this
pathological mood is not cured, will make a lot of mathematicians breadless.
---------Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
开场白
余观天下学数众才，体察愈久，遗憾益多。开始决定献身数学时，... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 471 | 23 http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/further-analysis-of-th
12 June, 2013 at 1:10 pm unknown mathematician
Dear Prof. Tao and other top mathematicians here,
Is the purpose of this to turn Zhang´s paper obsolete even before it
appears in print? It seems that this is already the case.
I wonder if had the author of the paper being studied been one of the top
people in the area (one of you) if it would have generated such a collective
effort to improve the result. I have never seen anyth... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 190 | 24 Hardy评价的是什么，看看原文
'Paul Erdős has passed on to us Hardy's personal ratings of
mathematicians.Suppose that we rate mathematicians on the basis of pure
talent on a scale from 0 to 100, Hardy gave himself a score of 25, J.E.
Littlewood 30, David Hilbert 80 and Ramanujan 100.'"
-------K Srinivasa Rao. "Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 1887 – 26 April
1920)"
pure talent 是什么意思？ |
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k*****n
发帖数: 417 | 25 http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_c24597bf0101cf89.html
A summary of interview with Zhang Yitang by Lizhen Ji and Ping-Zen Ong
in Taipei, in the evening of July 13, 2013.
A detailed (Chinese) version transcribing the 2 hour interview will appear
later.
This is the first face-to-face interview with Zhang by mathematicians.
1. Right after the big typhoon, we (Ji and Ong) interviewed him at the math
dept of Tai Da.
2. About His name. Tang is his mother's last name, it also means the whole
Chinese peop... 阅读全帖 |
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w***i
发帖数: 175 | 26 UNH has already offered Zhang an research position (Sr Research
Mathematician), not a tenured professor position.
我觉得挺不错的。纳什不也是 Sr Research Mathematician 吗？普林斯顿在得知纳什
要得诺奖的前一个月才送给他一个这样的职位。 |
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m****t
发帖数: 570 | 27 这话确实是Gallager说的
（Gallager说这话的意思是Shannon是一个思考者，他做的事情是抓住一个问题的本质
去create model，而applied mathematician则是解决别人提出的model）
Shannon theorem的证明在Wolfowitz 1960年的书里有
还有就是苏联学派给了更严格的证明，应该是Kolmogorov的弟子Pinsker给出的
mathematician |
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发帖数: 48 | 28 Jean Dieudonné wrote a book, giving some comments on the "good"
mathematicians in his time.
For sure, Kolmogorov is one of the greatest mathematician in history. |
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发帖数: 349 | 29 "不觉得愚公那个故事里面的愚公是成功，就是傻瓜一个"
Hi, you compared business men with mathematicians.
两个标准. business的标准,"成功"就是"混的好" (e.g.basically 钱多)
但mathematician 的标准不是这个. |
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M****o
发帖数: 4860 | 30 去Caltech了？牛逼
subsequently
success
mathematician
only
mathematician
s
kind
continuously
to
when
so
what
for
general
now?
department
food.
there
game
can
place |
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发帖数: 3896 | 31 The reader meant a paper that Zhang posted on the Web site arxiv.org, where
mathematicians often post results before submitting them to a journal, in
order to have them seen quickly. Zhang posted a paper in 2007 that fell
short of a proof. It concerned another famous problem, the Landau-Siegel
zeros conjecture, and he left it up because he hopes to correct it.
...
According to other mathematicians, Zhang is working on his incomplete result
for the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture. “If he succeeds,... 阅读全帖 |
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h****r
发帖数: 2056 | 32
I am not trying to belittle any one you mentioned, they all did great, but
none of them is even close to exceptional now.
I wouldn't believe any of them would call himself "tier 1 mathematician" in
this world at this time and obviously none of them is a fields winner.
meantime Iran and Vietnam did a much better job.
so I a not sure what were you trying to argue for.
since you had mentioned, as for the productivity of college entrance exam,
at least there is Yitang Zhang who are not only a first... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 33 Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay or Delone (Russian: Бори́с Никола
́евич Делоне́; March 15, 1890 – July 17, 1980) was one
of the first Russian mountain climbers and a Soviet/Russian mathematician,
and the father of physicist Nikolai Borisovich Delone.
The spelling Delone is a straightforward transliteration from Cyrillic he
often used in recent publications, while Delaunay is the French version he
used in the early French and German publications.
Boris Delone got his surname from his an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 534 | 34 Thanks, that is interesting.
COme to think about it, unlike Lookacar, I thought I would never be good
enough for bring a mathematician, pure math mathematician, so I choose to do
something else early on. But quite often I would look at math a little, and
found them interesting, still.
It is quite puzzling whether lookacar is really good or just really shit. I
vote really good for now. I think we should respect that everyone here does
not want to be disclosed of his true identity in real life. Bu... 阅读全帖 |
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w****1
发帖数: 4931 | 35 You gotta understand, in France, physicists and mathematicians have always
been well respected, much more
so than in America. You'll find plenty of streets named after physicists and
mathematicians in Paris, as
opposed to politicians and baseball players in the US. |
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c****e
发帖数: 2097 | 36 i would like to believe all math sophomores were such good material
although in reality they're just what they are.
of course, Grothendieck was probably not a sophomore when he thought about his groups.
so as a result, i really doubt how much original stuff can come from a math sophomore or
graduate student for that matter. and many mathematicians are not more than just
reciting machines of known stuff, these days or before.
no offense to real brilliant mathematicians, who are completely differe |
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l***y
发帖数: 1166 | 37 The Earth OEMII thinks of Space as a " scalar continuum " in all directions.
From this image of space, you worked out (initiated by Euclid) a whole
geometry based on abstractions such as the point, the line, and the plane.
You finished by accepting that POINT, LINE and PLANE really represent the
true components of the WAAM, although using a mental abstraction.
This original vice, not yet corrected, is costing you a considerable delay
in the comprehension of the physical world.
Indeed: when you i... 阅读全帖 |
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P*****s
发帖数: 375 | 38 A nice interview I just read is being shared with you guys here. :)
[ref]
http://fionarawsontile.blogspot.com/2015/09/interview-with-dr-x
Interview with Dr. Xi Yin
By Fiona Rawsontile, Sept 2015
This interview was inspired by an earlier interview of Dr. Yin I saw on the
Internet, which made me think that we can’t expect someone who normally
writes for entertainment to understand a physicist. To “provoke” a
scientist, we need another scientist. So I volun... 阅读全帖 |
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m****i
发帖数: 159 | 39 Celebrated Math Problem Solved, Russian Reports
By SARA ROBINSON
Russian mathematician is reporting that he has proved the Poincaré
Conjecture, one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics.
The mathematician, Dr. Grigori Perelman of the Steklov Institute of
Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, is
describing his work in a series of papers, not yet completed.
It will be months before the proof can be thoroughly checked. But if true, it
will verify a statemen |
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o*****e
发帖数: 435 | 40 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.ms.cicada10may10,0,3517208.stor
y?coll=bal-health-headlines
Mathematicians explore cicada's mysterious link with primes
By Michael Stroh
Sun Staff
Originally published May 10, 2004
It's probably no surprise that periodical cicadas like the clan invading
Maryland this month are a big draw for biologists. Less obvious is why someone
like Glenn Webb would care.
Webb is a mathematician. Working at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, he
spends his days im |
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f********h
发帖数: 10 | 41
IMPACT
not about models but about making money. Traditional bankers are never
mathematicians. There used to be those fancy financial engineering models,
most of them are designed for the credit markets and the bundled credit
products like CDOs. Now these products lead to the huge crisis ongoing now,
and the modellers lose a lot of reputation--because they are mathematicians
not businessmen. At least in the trading company I worked for(a very big one
), modellers are not highly regarded at all. |
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发帖数: 432 | 42 【7】【Springer】GTM美国研究生数学书籍全集
LIST：
1 Introduction to Axiomatic Set Theory, Gaisi Takeuti, W. M. Zaring
2 Measure and Category, John C. Oxtoby
3 Topological Vector Spaces, H.H. Schaefer, M.P. Wolff
4 A Course in Homological Algebra, Peter Hilton, Urs Stammbach
5 Categories for the Working Mathematician, Saunders Mac Lane
6 Projective Planes, Hughes, Piper
7 A Course in Arithmetic, Jean-Pierre Serre
8 Axiomatic Set Theory, Gaisi Takeuti, Zaring
9 Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1405 | 43 【 以下文字转载自 Faculty 讨论区 】
发信人: Highly (高妹), 信区: Faculty
标 题: 我为尹希教授做的专访
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Sep 23 14:31:24 2015, 美东)
Interview with Dr. Xi Yin
--- By Fiona Rawsontile, Sept 2015
This interview was inspired by an earlier interview of Dr. Yin I saw on the
Internet, which made me think that we can’t expect someone who normally
writes for entertainment to understand a physicist. To “provoke” a
scientist, we need another scientist. So I volunt... 阅读全帖 |
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i****x
发帖数: 17565 | 44 唉...一辈子奋斗，赢得生前身后名，却走得这么窝囊...
lobster110 (lobster)
1 98.* 5/24/15, 10:43:12 (19'31")
US mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-
winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash, local media has
reported.
Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia were both killed when their taxi crashed in
New Jersey, the reports said.
The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel
Prize for Economics in 1994.
His breakthroughs in maths - and his struggles wit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4908 | 45 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
littleice (家有两宝：狗娃猪仔) 于 (Sat Apr 10 15:27:51 2010, 美东) 提到:
刚看了Outliers的后记，原来作者的外婆是个推外婆啊，:D
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flyinger (上香上香) 于 (Sat Apr 10 16:12:42 2010, 美东) 提到:
u r so fast
I am still in the process of paying at dangdang
dont know why my credit card payment failed
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发帖数: 4050 | 47 关于经济危机的起源，是regulation还是deregulation.
认为是regulation造成经济危机的请提供资料。TeddyBear请出手。
============================================
Officially the Great Recession started in December 2007, long before most
Americans on Main Street realized what was about to happen. And according to
the NBER, the Great Recession ended in July 2009, which most Americans on
Main Street cynically laughed at knowing full well their recession was not
over at that time.
There is a lot of blame to go around for the Great Recessio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2032 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: splitmind (狗爹猫爸), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: 2012 最好和最差的工作评比出炉了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Apr 18 16:31:40 2012, 美东)
码工排第一，记者和播音员居然排倒数第五和第十。。。
Best Jobs in 2012 Midlevel Income
1. Software Engineer $88,142
2. Actuary $88,202
3. Human Resources Manager $99,102
4. Dental Hygienist $68,109
5. Financial Planner $104,161
6. Audiologist $67,137
7. Occu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 70028 | 49 男怕入错行，女怕嫁错郎。男的绝对不能入错行，女的最好也能入对行。大学是关键阶段，选对了专业，也就是选对自己职业方向。选了倒霉的专业，毕业即等于失业；选了吃香的专业，尚未毕业，已经收到工作邀请了。
美国著名的就业网站(CareerCast)前阵子作了一次调查，综合考虑身体要求、工作环境、收入、压力和雇佣前景 (physicaldemands, work environment, income, stress and hiringoutlook)等方面的因素，评选出2012年十大最佳工作和十大最差的工作。下面是最佳工作(bestjobs)名次。
第一名，软件工程师(SoftwareEngineer)。年收入88,142.00美元。主要是医疗、科学和产业用途的电脑软件系统的开发、研究和设计。
第二名，精算师(Actuary)。年收入88,202美元。精算师诠释统计数据来确定事故、生病、死亡和被盗和自然灾害造成的财产损失的几率。通常都受聘于保险公司，是个非常保险的工作。
第三名，人力资源经理(Human ResourcesManager)。年薪99,102美元。人力资源经理计划、指导或协调所有... 阅读全帖 |
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w**t
发帖数: 3247 | 50 It had its own reason, not just because she teached Plato. BTW, she was a
mathematician. |
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