Furthermore, it found that teachers were often using a watered-down, applied-math approach in classrooms of low-income students, while giving higher income students much more exposure to pure math.

Mathematics is often seen as an isolated subject, with distinct fields and theories that seem to have little in common.

When approaching unsolved applied math problems, the distinction between applied and pure mathematics often vanishes. Areas that were considered at one time too abstract have been exactly what is ...

Students planning to undertake graduate studies in pure mathematics should take MATH 105, 111, 112, 113, 153, and 154. Students planning to undertake graduate studies in applied mathematics should ...

"The Applied Math program should bring more of the Faculty into advising math students," Garrett Birkhoff, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, explained.

Join the Mathematics Graduate Student Association (MGSA), an organization of all master’s- and doctoral-level students at CWRU who are studying statistics, applied mathematics and pure mathematics.