Ask HN: Mathematical Consultants – Do they exist?

1 point·danieltillett··10 comments

I have a few ideas where I know roughly that a concept will work, but where I lack the background math to be able to be able to fully optimize them. Are there mathematical consultants out there (freelance) that I could get to help me? Any suggestions?

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John Cook is pretty well-known for doing this sort of thing: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/top/

His blog is always a good read to boot.

Yes he looks to be exactly the sort of person I am looking for.

Seconding this. Also his twitter accounts are pretty interesting: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/twitter_page/

He's written some posts specifically on how he transitioned into consulting; I can't find them right now but they're worth poking around for.

I have a background in physics and various areas of mathematical software development. I also worked on an Innocentive DNA analysis competition a couple of years ago. I thought I had some interesting ideas but was not able to achieve competitive results in the time frame of the competition. If you'd like to discuss your ideas my email is in my HN profile.

Thanks for the offer - I will be in touch.

Of course, there are several mathematical consulting companies:

http://www.scmsa.eu/

http://www.maths2b.fr/

etc.

Charles Brenner (http://dna-view.com/index.html) works specifically on "forensic mathematics" (DNA identification, etc.)

I should add that anyone who wants to get in touch with me can via my HN profile.

Sonja Benson Grear, Overland Park, Kansas, sgrear at planetkc dot com

Kevin Christian, Belmont, California.

They are both on facebook.

Thanks Michael.

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