Invisible wrote:
> Who the hell does theoretical physics "commercially"?

Well, someone spent a whole s__tload of money building the LHC, and Cern has 
been around for decades. Someone is doing theoretical physics for money.

> Engineering seems to involve CAD and material simulations far more than 
> any actual "mathematics" as such.

Depends, really. If you're trying to come up with the best airplane wing, 
there's a lot of math involved.

> Heh. I'd apply to Wolfram themselves if they were in the UK. And, you 
> know, if it wasn't patently absurd for a nobody like me to be applying 
> to an internationally renound company.

Never hurts to apply. And maybe they'll tell you who their customers are 
enough to apply for a job nearby.

>> Someone has to figure out how those finite element simulations work.
> 
> That's a solved problem. (Solved several decades ago too.) You don't 
> need Mathematica, you just need a good textbook.

Someone has to figure out all the other stuff like that.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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