My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.
The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.
Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself and has its own abstract truth and value, just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
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