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Keep in mind, there could be better options than FAANG, but one thing that helps is practicing in an environment that's more like the interview. For that, you can try www.pramp.com to do mock interviews for free. You can also look at Amy Miller's YouTube channel for an inside scoop on the...

A long time ago, I tutored a student who mentioned they had a special program where they learned group theory in high school (in the US). The book Abel's Theorem in Problems was originally taught to high school students in Russia. In terms of formal prerequisites, abstract algebra could be...

In case anyone is interested, today, I came across the Algebraic Geometry book for beginners that I didn't have time to get through: C.G. Gibson, Elementary Geometry of Algebraic Curves. It's hard to get more elementary than that as a starting point, but you would want to study linear algebra...

Oh, by the way, my math book intuition is telling me that Mathwonk's book suggestion may be a good one in the long run, despite the negative reviews, partly because I trust his taste to a certain extent. However, the bad reviews suggest there are hurdles towards appreciating it, and it probably...

I am going to have to come back from the dead, I guess, since this is up my alley. One point is that there is a distinction between "geometry" and "visualization" and the terms are somewhat ambiguous. I will answer under the interpretation that both are desirable. At times, we may need to be...

That's a good way to sum up what you'd learn from my book recommendations. Having said that, I do kind of miss doing math proper sometimes. I do a little on the side for fun, but there's not much time to go in depth with a lot of the stuff I'd like.

Yeah, you could look into it and you'll see some postings for that. That background would probably also be good for machine learning, too. There are certain subjects that definitely will give you an advantage, like optimization, statistics, or maybe numerical analysis. It's more "generic math...

I got a math PhD and then had to improvise after it turned out that being great at being a math student didn't extend to being great at either research or teaching. I ended up doing software development. The thing I would add here is that while the sky is the limit in terms of the connections...

I see. Maybe you should find a startup that doesn't have the resources for such a high degree of specialization yet.Going back to data science, my issues with data science are not so peculiar to just me, although I didn't even like it when I was able to just cherry-pick the math part, since I...

I tried to learn data science on the side when I was in my backend role, but it was just an uphill battle to get interested, and ultimately, if I had to choose between just writing code and data science, it was going to be just writing code. When I was a student, a lot of times, it seemed like...

Another thought I want to mention is that the full stack skill set is a very powerful one because with today's cloud platforms, you have a lot of power right at your fingertips to just code something up and unleash it on the world (for a price), whether it's a personal project, a freelance...

This hit close enough to home that I am prompted to come out of my long withdrawal from physics forums. Very rarely I come back and read a few posts just for kicks. I have a PhD in math (in a physic-sy area of math) and have worked as a software developer. Backend until recently. I'm now...

One more thing to add is that I don't know that we were very careful about the stats and where they came from and what their scope is and all that, but I think it's okay for the purposes of discussion. Just wanted to point that out, but hopefully that will be it for this thread.

Almeisan, you did indeed mis-characterize my opinions again while I was gone. You claimed that I was accusing all people who want a physics PhD of playing a lottery because they all want to be professors. In fact, you added your own interpretation to what I said. So, as I said, you have an...

micromass, thanks for sticking up for me. Almeisan, you have created a fake version of me in your mind that has tons opinions that I don't actually have. That's why you can't understand my point of view. To get a PhD, you have to work very hard for a very long time and not making very much...