I got a BA from NYU and took a fair amount of grad classes and spent most of my time in CIMS. Firstly I'd probably want to hear what you think of as applied mat

I got a BA from NYU and took a fair amount of grad classes and spent most of my time in CIMS. Firstly I'd probably want to hear what you think of as applied mathematics, because if you're talking about the field of applied mathematics that lies outside of engineering and physics, it gets about as much "popularization" as pure mathematics. Putting that aside, of the professors who had pure focuses, I'd say more often than not they tried to do their responsibilities as educators and put forth examples to try and make the material more accessible—but that kind of thing seemed to be how they thought on the matter. Actually, the applied mathematicians were very similar. I felt that most of their thoughts were constructive and there wasn't really any sense of comparison with the traitorous physicists or anything. In the first place, before any popularization of mathematics can occur, it needs to be introduced in a way that doesn't leave all our secondary school students traumatized for their entire education, which goes back to the education system.