what area of maths is your favorite (1 Viewer)

[maths > english]

what is your favorite area of maths out of the following:

• pure

• applied

• statistics

 

[withoutaface]

Pure. I'd rather do a B Comm than major in statistics.

 

[KFunk]

Pure, but some areas of applied appeal to me. I havn't really been exposed to enough to make a decent decision though.

 

[maths > english]

i think alot of people would agree that statistics is the most boring type of maths

pure is probably the most popular

 

[lfc_reds2003]

hmmm... i rekon ppl choose to do pure purely (LOL) because it sounds the nerdiest on their resume hehe

statistics is like.. who cares m8 .. hut if ur a proper mathematician theres some respect there

 

[Templar]

Preferred thesis topics, in order of preference (could change though):

Computational Algebra
Algebra
Topology
Analysis

So I guess it's a bit towards pure, although I was put on the applied side for soccer on Wednesday.

 

[HayleeKate]

Statistics.. is that even real maths?
Applied is alright. At least actually serving some purpose.
All real mathematicians should say pure shouldnt they? Otherwise theyre just scientists who use maths, or people who like to suggest themselves to be mathematicians because it sounds far better than saying they make up statistics.

 

[acmilan]

Computational, which id probably major in, but since its not an option, and i dont really like applied, id have to go pure.

 

[acmilan]

What's wrong with statistics? A lot of the higher end statistics is as good as the pure and applied stuff. I don't really have a preference anymore.

I think much of the hate for statistics is that we dont confront it early enough in schooling in NSW. If we were in a state such as SA, where their stats is comparable to our early uni stats, we might be saying something different. However I dont mind statistics, its more applied maths that I dont like.

 

[jm1234567890]

isn't statistics part of applied maths?

 

[SeDaTeD]

Pure for me.

 

[withoutaface]

What's wrong with statistics? A lot of the higher end statistics is as good as the pure and applied stuff. I don't really have a preference anymore.



Only because of all the girls.

Nope, because if I'm going to go through hell I might as well have a substantial salary waiting for me at the end of it.

 

[Jumbo Cactuar]

although I was put on the applied side for soccer on Wednesday.

I was put on the nanotechnology side ~ serves the material science engineers right because we slaughtered them. (EDIT: In a completely unrelated game)

Personnally I wouldn't want to exclusively spend my life manipulating numbers in obscure numbers of dimensions and then prove something that impresses the mathematics community yet have little or no impact on society. Oh well, that is my narrow minded opinion. Statistics are useful I have come to understand ~ even to a materials chemist!

PS It is favourite

 

[gordo]

i no longer like anyone who voted in this poll

wat would compell you to make this thread

 

[justchillin]

ease up he's just interested in wat people think. pure for me i hate statistics...and applied is sometimes so tedious...

 

[santaslayer]

Where does simple one digit addition come into the picture?

 

[daemonic666]

Where does simple one digit addition come into the picture?

damn straight. im getting sick of all this normal conics and polynomials, and here we are, end of term 2 and we havent started applications. i agree with m_isk on the football though