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Applied Mathematics is Bad Mathematics

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Mathematics Tomorrow

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It isn’t really (applied mathematics, that is, isn’t really bad mathematics), but it’s different.

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Halmos, P.R. (1981). Applied Mathematics is Bad Mathematics. In: Steen, L.A. (eds) Mathematics Tomorrow. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8127-3_2

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