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Applied Mathematics

In opposition to the field of pure mathematics, the approach of applied mathematics is directed toward real objects in the real world. The motions of planets are calculated by astronomers who predict eclipses, and by NASA scientists who calculate the best times to launch their rockets to Mars. Applied mathematicians may use the results of pure mathematics in a modeling process, but their ultimate goal is explanation, prediction, or control of the physical world in some way.

There have been useful observations come from applied mathematics that have helped spur our computer age incline, and serious science could not make the discoveries of our lifetimes without applied mathematicians helping. That's what makes applied mathematics at Northark an involved and serious program.