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by diggan 648 days ago
> They hire more Math PhD's than the entire economy combined.

Does "the entire economy" include quantitative trading firms/hedge funds and alike? Feel like they'd probably be able to snap up quite a few.

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They do, as do machine learning/AI firms, insurers and other actuarial firms, and, of course, academia. Like every other postgraduate specialization there are subreddits full of threads of people discussing "what am I going to do with this doctorate I'm getting if I don't end up becoming a tenure-track professor?".