When I search grad student profiles in CS and financial research groups, I often find that there are students who did their undergrads or even masters in mathematics or physics.<p>Although they are in minority among a huge number of CS grads, but that is not the point. I don't find that many biology or chemistry majors being everywhere in such an interdisciplinary manner.<p>What makes physics and math graduates so strong to work in wide variety of domains? What is the skillset they possess?
Mathematics.<p>Eugene Wigner - The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences
<a href="https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf</a><p>Social Physics
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01866.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01866.pdf</a><p>Wir müssen wissen.
Wir werden wissen.
I think it's more that they need jobs than possessing any special abilities. I get the impression that math and physics are hard to get jobs in specifically, and the low hanging fruit has all been plucked.
Everything is build ontop physics and math. randal Munroe made a Graphic that shows it perfectly <a href="https://xkcd.com/435/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/435/</a>