I think his point was that pure math can be very devolved from real world as I found when i tried to go from a Engineering to a HNC in Maths Stats and Computing

I think his point was that pure math can be very devolved from real world as I found when i tried to go from a Engineering to a HNC in Maths Stats and Computing. Back then it was virtulay all Pure maths with the computing side being shall we say Antique - most of my course mates where working at Tier 1 RnD workng at the bleeding edge, my employer hired the first non academic knowledge engineer in the UK