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by setopt 4 days ago
That is perhaps fair, is that distinction common internationally?

Again, in the universities I’ve been to, «applied math» and «statistics» have generally been placed under the department of mathematics. I myself am a physicist, and consider applied physics, biophysics, etc. to be subfields of physics and not distinct fields of study, but I don’t know what outer physicists think.