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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forgive my ignorance and I apologize in advance if this question makes people cringe, but what is applied math, exactly? What can you do with it apart from teach? I always assumed it was practical applications of math and I'm not sure what type of job you use that in. [/quote] I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it. Some examples include simulation (discrete event, continuous, agent-based); Markov processes; queueing problems; advanced inventory control (deterministic and probabilistic); deterministic optimization; games (as in game theory); and reliability, availability, and maintainability. A lot of this is also found in operations research (which was previously mentioned by another poster). Some of this may be offered by business schools and there it might be called management science.[/quote]
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