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Physics PhD here. I'd call it both. A lot of what applied math departments study are problems of physical nature; and a lot of physics research boils down to ap
by oefrha 7y ago
Physics PhD here. I'd call it both. A lot of what applied math departments study are problems of physical nature; and a lot of physics research boils down to applied math. (Broadly speaking, all theoretical physics is applied math.)
Guess I'm biased too because I'm a theorist and started out from a math background.
- ska 7y agoI went the other direction, physics to math, but agree with your broad characterization. Not all applied math is physics, obviously. I do find mathematicians and physicists often have different characteristic ways of thinking about similar things, but the lines are blurry.