Math in Jobs

There's one question that is always asked during math class, "Are we ever actually going to use this stuff?" That's one question I've always wondered about. Why are we learning such weird theories, formulas and equations? What good will it do us? How come it is so necessary in our lives? Well, for my blog I decided to research a couple of obscure jobs that require mathematics in order to see why it is so important in our academic curriculum.

The Actuary
With a little help from Google, I was able to find out how interesting the job of an actuary is. They work with predicting and analyzing the consequences of risks. They are a financial planner of sorts. Actuaries use math, financial studies and statistics in order to predict what will happen in the future. For instance, after the event of a large hurricane an actuary's job is to guesstimate long term damage costs, and plan for future kinds of insurances that will need to be given to people living where the hurricane took place. By using math, we are sort of able to see the future!
   
The Cryptologist
Cryptology is the study of ways we can communicate secretly in the presence of other parties. Not only do cryptologists create codes to be used for secrecy, but they also break codes they intercept. A great deal of math and puzzle solving skills is used in cryptology. A crpytologist's main method of breaking a code involves using algorithms. An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure of calculations. They use algorithms to narrow down the different types of code that could could possibly apply to the encrypted message. Without cryptology our greatest secrets and messages would fall straight into enemy hands!