Applied Mathematics

About this course

Applied mathematics is the discipline concerned with using mathematical methods, models and techniques to understand and address real problems in science, engineering, economics, biology, social science and beyond. Where pure mathematics pursues abstract structures for their own sake, applied mathematics asks how those structures can be used to describe and predict the behaviour of the physical and social world. It encompasses mathematical modelling, differential equations, numerical methods, probability and statistics, fluid dynamics, optimisation, and an ever-growing range of applications in fields from quantum mechanics to machine learning and epidemiology. At the University of Edinburgh, this four-year full-time degree gives you a rigorous mathematical education alongside sustained engagement with the applications of mathematics to real-world problems. Edinburgh is one of the UK's l

Where its graduates go

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