Monday, March 16, 2015

Mathematics Is the STEM of Science by Dr. Prashant Shrivastava, Amity Gwalior


It is a well known saying that” Mathematics is the Mother of all Sciences”. Here in abbreviation STEM, S stands for Science T for Technology, E for Engineering and M for Mathematics.
Mathematics relies almost entirely on imagination and discovery that come from the human mind. There are no boundaries to mathematical ideas. From Ancient Times to the Present Age of Information a common man thinks that, mathematics is just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division but mathematics is rich in history and application. It is used:
to break codes during war time
to analyze documents
to design transportation systems
to compute missile trajectories and satellite orbits
to handle complex management scheduling
From the ancient Egyptians to the robotics scientists of this century, mathematics has been integral to many technical advances in the history of humankind.
Mainly, mathematics is classified into two branches: pure and applied mathematics.
  Applied mathematics is a branch of mathematics that deals with mathematical methods that find use in science, engineering, business, computer science, civil, architecture and industry. From the ancient time linguistic is playing a vital role in the field of communication which distinguish human and animals ,beyond this when a cave man came out from the forest for the betterment of mankind unfold many fields like commerce transportation farming and industries. In each and every field requires direct or indirect application of mathematics. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge. The term "applied mathematics" also describes the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on practical problems by formulating and studying mathematical models. In the past, practical applications have motivated the development of mathematical theories, which then became the subject of study in pure mathematics where abstract concepts are studied for their own sake. The activity of applied mathematics is thus intimately connected with research in pure mathematics.                                      
Applied mathematics consisted principally of applied analysis, most notably differential equations; approximation theory and numerical analysis and probability. There is no consensus as to what the various branches of applied mathematics are. Such categorizations are made difficult by the way mathematics and science change over time, and also by the way universities organize departments, courses, degrees and applications of mathematics. The use and development of mathematics to solve industrial problems is also called "industrial mathematics".
The success of modern numerical mathematical methods and software has led to the emergence of computational mathematics, computational science, and computational engineering, which use high-performance computing for the simulation of phenomena and the solution of problems in the sciences and engineering. These are often considered interdisciplinary disciplines.
However, since World War II, fields outside of the physical sciences have spawned the creation of new areas of mathematics, such as Optimization Methods, game theory .Statistical theorists study and improve statistical procedures with mathematics, and statistical research often raises mathematical questions. Statistical theory relies on probability and decision theory, also in neural networks, which arose out of the study of the brain in neuroscience.
Academic status
In Amity, Academic Status is consistent in the way they group and label courses, programs, and degrees in applied mathematics. Many programs consist of primarily cross-listed courses and jointly appointed faculty in departments representing applications. Some Ph.D. programs in applied mathematics require little or no coursework outside of mathematics, while others require substantial coursework in a specific area of application. In some respects this difference reflects the distinction between "application of mathematics" and "applied mathematics”. Operations and management science are often taught in faculties of engineering, business, and public policy. Computer science relies on logic and algebra.
Mathematicians Are in Demand!
Career possibilities include work in finance, cryptology, computer graphics, medicine, robotics, economics, statistics, teaching, and management science.
Today, the term "applied mathematics" is used in a broader sense. It includes the classical areas noted above as well as other areas that have become increasingly important in applications. Even fields such as number theory that are part of pure mathematics are now important in applications (such as cryptography), though they are not generally considered to be part of the field of applied mathematics. Sometimes, the term "applicable mathematics" is used to distinguish between the traditional applied mathematics that developed alongside physics and the many areas of mathematics that are applicable to real-world problems today.




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