• Question: how much maths is used????????????

    Asked by kellis to Alex, Chris, Mohamed, Rik, Victoria on 13 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by Lillicent.
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      Rik Allen answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Hi,
      To be honest – I use more maths than most of my colleagues and don’t often need anything too heavy. A lot of the time we are using maths without thinking about it. When I need to pull out real maths though, it’s quite advanced (for me at least) – almost all of video encoding depends on Fourier transforms and “Lagrangian optimisation” – which I learnt about as an adult. It would be tough doing most engineering jobs without reasonable A-levels, and most degrees will push you a lot further than that, but after that that you could end up needing lots or very little.
      I learn more all the time – but forget other bits.

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      Alex Shenfield answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      It really depends on what you are doing. Pretty much everything i do requires a solid grasp of basic algebra, but some things require more.

      For example, signal monitoring and processing (such as analysing and filter audio signals) requires a good grasp of frequency analysis. However, some of the electronic circuit design and simulation requires a bit less maths!

    • Photo: Victoria Sharpe

      Victoria Sharpe answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      Maths is used all the time, but it’s not always complex.. Sometimes it is, is this about the right size.. Other times it’s will this survive the roll conditions in rough seas even though it weighs 7000t…

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