Kerry Whisnant, an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan and professor of physics at Iowa State University, may be on to something that will greatly impact team winning percentages. Mathematical models that he and other fanatic baseball statisticians have helped produce may accurately predict teams' successes. Whisnant and other members of the Society for American Baseball Research have analyzed...
National Security Analyst
National security analyst, also known as intelligence analysts, use the process of taking known information about situations and entities and with appropriate statements of probability, the future actions in those situations and by those entities. They reduce the ambiguity of highly uncertain situations.
Low-end Salary:
$53,938/yr
Median Salary:
$73,491/yr
High-end Salary:
$105,581/yr Education:
The minimum requirement includes an advanced degree and experience in fields involving mathematics, statistics, econometrics, operations research, computer or mathematical programming, and/or modeling.
Math Required:
College Algebra
Trigonometry
Calculus I and II
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Introduction to Real Analysis
Analysis I and II
Statistics
When Math Is Used:
National security analysts utilize mathematics, computer programming, engineering, and language skills as well as new technologies and creativity to solve tomorrow's problems.
Potential Employers:
The national security analyst practice is found in its purest form inside intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States or the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the UK. Its methods are also applicable in fields such as business intelligence or competitive intelligence.
Citations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_analysis
http://www.cbsalary.com/national-salary-chart.aspx?specialty=Security+An...
https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/analytical/analytic-methodolog...
http://www.mathematics.jhu.edu/new/undergrad/courses.htm
http://math.tntech.edu/who-is-hiring.html
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Check this out: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/mathkids/prime.html
It shows one of the many ways that National Security Analysts use math in their job. It talks about how to make a math based code that is almost impossible to crack.