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Applied mathematicians in the service of pressing global issues

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Applied mathematics: The left image is an example of the polar data gap (dark blue disc) on August 30, 2007, with shading outside the disc indicating concentration. The middle and right images show the data fill presented here; the color shading at right is similar to that used by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (http://nsidc.org).Nowadays there is a diffuse border between pure and applied mathematics. The pure mathematician – an atypical scientist inclined toward the abstract – – is capable of switching at any time to the role of applied mathematician in order to address and solve the pressing global issues that threaten humanity. From assisting manned space missions to modelling the processes of ice melting or the spread of an epidemic, the applied mathematician’s contributions are crucial for humankind. The confidence we have in the truths of applied mathematics, which – within the philosophy of science –  is part of  the so-called Wigner’s puzzle, is a kind of evolutionary feature of the discipline.

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