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Are you sure that’s «most» mathematicians? At the universities I’ve been to (as a student and now faculty), «applied mathematics» and «statistics» have been th
by setopt 4mo ago
Are you sure that’s «most» mathematicians?
At the universities I’ve been to (as a student and now faculty), «applied mathematics» and «statistics» have been the two largest divisions. But perhaps that’s a bias from engineering-heavy universities?
- jubilanti 4mo ago"Applied Math" and "Statistics" are distinct fields from "Mathematics," not subfields of it. People in those two departments are often closer to Computer Science or the statistics subfield in a domain science field (e.g. biostatistics, econometrics) than to Mathematics in terms of what they actually teach and research.
- setopt 4mo agoThat is perhaps fair, is that distinction common internationally? Again, in the universities I’ve been to, «applied math» and «statistics» have generally been placed under the department of mathematics. I myself am a physicist, and consider applied physics, biophysics, etc. to be subfields of physics and not distinct fields of study, but I don’t know what outer physicists think.