hello and good day, intpforum. i'm in a pretty crucial point in my academic life right now. i'm almost done with my surveying program and need to find something else to pursue. i REALLY like chemistry, but i've heard that in practice you don't really use all that much math? i've been considering biochem because i think something along the lines of cancer research, pharmaceutical development, or DNA research would be absolutely sick. but are there fields in these disciplines that are math-intensive? please and thank you.
My organic and biochemistry classes didn't require much math. I think that in the upper levels of research, however, that can change.
Physical chemistry is a LOT of math. Look at what they research at
UCLA.
DNA and genetics research can be a lot of statistics, especially population genetics -- so, again, it depends on what you go into.
I might suggest taking a math minor or something and then working on a mathematics-heavy theoretical topic in graduate school.
I might also suggest biophysics, which is an undergraduate major at my university. Biomedical engineering, as Awaken suggested, would also be great too; however, it is only offered at the Masters/Ph.d level at my school (and most other places, I believe).
