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Supplementary mathematics/Computational mathematics
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Computational mathematics includes mathematical research in branches of science where calculation plays an important and key role. Calculation means algorithms, numerical methods and symbolic methods. Calculation is leading in research. Computational mathematics emerged in the 1950s as a different branch of applied mathematics.
Today, it is necessary to use a computer to perform calculations to solve various scientific problems. Computational mathematics includes or relates to:
Computing science, or scientific computing or computing engineering or engineering and computing science
Solving mathematical problems with computer simulation, unlike applied mathematical analytical methods
Numerical methods used in scientific calculations such as numerical linear algebra, numerical solution of partial differential equations
Stochastic methods such as Monte Carlo methods and other representations of uncertainty in scientific computing, for example random finite elements
Mathematics of scientific calculations, which from a mathematical point of view includes mathematical proofs, such as numerical analysis and the theory of numerical methods, and from the point of view of theoretical computer science, including the theory of calculations and computational complexity
Symbolic calculations and computer algebra devices
Research with the help of computer in various branches of mathematics such as logic (subsidized proof of proof), discrete mathematics, etc.
Computational linguistics, the use of mathematical and computer techniques in natural languages
Computational algebraic geometry
Computational group theory
Computational geometry
Computational number theory
Computational topology
Computational statistics
Algorithmic theory of information
Algorithmic theory of games