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Maybe, but “applied mathematics” is conventionally more similar to “how to apply mathematics” than it is to “mathematics that is applied”. Studying how to apply
by aaachilless 9y ago
Maybe, but “applied mathematics” is conventionally more similar to “how to apply mathematics” than it is to “mathematics that is applied”. Studying how to apply mathematics is qualitatively different in many ways than studying pure mathematics.
- dboreham 9y agoAh. I genuinely did not know that. In Scotland we did not have Applied Mathematics (as a school exam subject) so I guess I just assumed it was about physics problems (there was an A-level with that name in England). It never came up again in my Mathematics career..