Draft:Outline of applied mathematics

For a more comprehensive list, see the List of applied mathematics topics.

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to applied mathematics:

Essence of applied mathematics

Main article: Applied mathematics

Branches of applied mathematics

• Approximation theory
• Numerical analysis
• Optimization
  • Operations research

• Dynamical systems:
  • Control theory
  • Chaos theory

• Discrete mathematics:
  • Combinatorics
  • Graph theory
  • Game theory
  • Discrete geometry

• • Theoretical computer science
    • Computability theory
    • Complexity theory
    • Information theory
    • Cryptography

• Computational mathematics

• Probability:
  • Probability theory
  • Statistics

• Mathematical biology
• Financial mathematics

History of applied mathematics

Main article: History of applied mathematics

Applied mathematics lists

Main article: List of applied mathematics topics

See also

• List of basic mathematics topics