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Sounds more like applied math...

• eru 6y ago
  Nothing wrong with applied math. It's still math.
  • garmaine 6y ago
    From the grandparent post: > I followed a (pure) mathematics education...
    • eru 6y ago
      Oh, OK, that's what you meant. Makes more sense. I'm not so quick in judging people by how applied they are. We mathematicians always try to come up with new pure fields, but then some other people always come and find some applications. Just see how cryptography and computer science sullied our beloved number theory! (I mostly focused on the computer-science-y parts of math in my studies. Thinks like linear optimization and combinatorics. Not sure whether to count that as applied or pure. I guess I might get a purity pass, because we only ever proved our algorithms correct but seldom implemented them.)