Timeline for Nobel Prize for Applied Mathematics
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| Mar 29 at 12:24 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Max Muller: You are right: it does not work anymore. Unfortunately I do not remember the coordinates of the article. The author is Keith Devlin. | |
| Mar 29 at 11:53 | comment | added | Max Lonysa Muller | @AlexandreEremenko Interesting answer. Unfortunately, the link doesn't appear to work anymore | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 20:35 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Carl Witthof: really? Who would care to state and prove those theorems in statistics if not applications to the "real world"? It seems that you confuse Probability and Statistics. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 17:41 | comment | added | paul garrett | I strongly agree with Alexandre Eremenko's notion of "applied math". In particular, the idea that the politics of academic departments is a meaningful indicator of scientific or intellectual connections is pretty funny. And, for that matter, if I (and other people) apply ideas that arose in physics to number theory, is that "applied physics"? And automorphic forms in string theory is "applied math". And "pure" as opposed to "realworld"? A supposed distinction very hard to understand, and all the more difficult the more I learn... | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | No, statistics is not applied math. Statistics theorems can be applied to realworld situations, but the math is "pure." | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 12:53 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | They also have separate statistics departments. Is not this also applied mathematics? | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | The views at various universities on what their department of applied mathematics is supposed to do differ. For example, in many US universities, they do not qualify mathematical physics as applied mathematics. I use a broader (and more consistent) definition of applied mathematics. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 12:33 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Well, at many Universities there's a separate Department Of Applied Mathematics which exists conceptually between Mathematics and Engineering departments. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 12:23 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | For example, Lorenz group was NOT studied by mathematicians before Lorenz, as a pure mathematical object. Same applies to "Feynman integrals". | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 12:21 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Carl Witthoft: then give your definition of "applied mathematics". The work of the listed people is not just "using math", but "developing new math to solve a specific problem of science". And this is my definition of applied math. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 12:15 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | I don't agree that "using math to solve a problem" is equivalent to "the field of Applied Mathematics" | |
| Jun 14, 2020 at 2:19 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |