<p>Engineers are widely known for their problem solving skills. However, recently someone that seemed knowledgeable in both majors said that Applied Math majors have the purest analytic skills developed out of any majors. </p>
<p>Is this true? Now I am not trying to ask whether Math majors have superior problem solving and analytic skills than engineers or vice versa, but I am asking, is there a slight edge in the skill development? and why and how? </p>
<p>I think the question here is a bit vague. Being more specific here would help.</p>
<p>It’s also apples and oranges. Engineers will require more practical problem solving while applied math will work much more rigidly.</p>
<p>The most important question here I think is that why would a slight edge matter in a choice between the two? Shouldn’t you be considering your personal preference for each? While related, they are significantly different things in terms of daily work (if I am not mistaken).</p>
<p>As stated, this is really apples and oranges.</p>
<p>Math is simply a tool that engineers use. An applied math graduate should be an expert at using that tool.</p>
<p>When I was going to CSULA, Applied Math is an MS program. I know because I applied for it. They only have Math or Pure Math for BS. When you say “purest analytical skills”, you are saying something like “pure” math. “Pure” translate to something that is not practical. Engineering is all practical. It is all about finding a solution that is practical in nature, for example, building a bridge, or creating electricity out of nuclear reaction. Einstein is not an engineer, he is a purist, he deals with abstract things. He never had a laboratory to experiment if e = mc^2 prove the theory of relativity, he knew it by abstraction, pure thought.</p>
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<p>CSULA’s math major has several options: general, pure, applied, applied/CS, teaching
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