Talk: Applied mathematics

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Numerical Relativity

What the heck is that? I think I know what the author meant, that the computational relativistic mechanics might be applied, as oppose to relativity theory. I dont think it fits with the other headings. Can someone suggest an alternative, otherwise perhaps we should delete. Other than that the article is quite good, although I would argue that it is a stub. Billlion 13:18, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hmm. I wonder why these subdivisions of theoretical physics are even included. They really aren't directly related to the topic of applied mathematics (maybe in an applied physics article, or even engineering mathematics, but...). I don't think this article should become a list of "important subdivisions" of all the fields listed in the first paragraph, so I suggest we remove everything after "indistinguishable from theoretical physics.". - dcljr 20:28, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

There is a certain camp of applied mathematicians, perhaps mainly in certain universities in the UK, who think that Applied Mathematics consists only of mechanics and fluid dynamics, even some who think that asymptotic methods in fluid dynamics is the entirety of applied mathematics. Not sure how to treat that diplomatically. 21:12, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)