Fewer people studying advanced maths.

[TrueTears]

mmm im not too sure on the mathematics in physics, never done any physics subjects lol

but im guessing the mathematics in applied physics should be a bit more rigorous than in stats

[Mao]

mmm im not too sure on the mathematics in physics, never done any physics subjects lol

but im guessing the mathematics in applied physics should be a bit more rigorous than in stats

Man, statistical mechanics is not diluted at all, it's some of the roughest applied maths you can get into. I love that stuff.

[kamil9876]

I think statistics would be considered math in general. Some professors told me that some of it is pretty much like pure math. The more theoretical part of it definitely is from experience. However I have heard quotes from certain funny as professors, such as this one:

"My brother is a statistician, so I asked him what he does. He told me that people just come up to him and say 'ok this is the data we have, and this is the paper we want to write... can you fix us up' "

As far as statistical dynamics goes... dunno what it is exactly but if it's the same thing as statistical mechanics then I can tell you that there is some really hardcore as well as nice mathematics involved after seeing what one of my mates is working now on. Lot's of combinatorics, generating functions, continued fractions even etc. my mate who pretty much has a bit of a 'pure' taste in math has gotten interested in it. In general I think that in a lot of cases applied math is actually not as bad as you think, gone are the days of G.H Hardy's outdated views that nice mathematics like number theory etc. is pure and has no applications. Nowadays things can get complicated and the fact that we're in the digital age means that things that were mainly pure now find many applications(think cryptography). I think the fact that we learn from old textbooks may give us a bit of an outdated view.

[Mao]

As far as statistical dynamics goes... dunno what it is exactly but if it's the same thing as statistical mechanics then I can tell you that there is some really hardcore as well as nice mathematics involved after seeing what one of my mates is working now on.

I typo'd. The sector of my brain responsible for speech becomes unreliable at the first hint of fatigue or intoxication. Fixed in post.

With present computational resources, and the increasing amount of data going through our lives, statistics will become more and more important and complex. I have a friend who is using statistics to solve some graph-theory problems, etc. It is a huge emerging field.