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This area deals with applications of mathematics other than mathematical physics

Applications of mathematics, other than mathematical physics.

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Communication Theory

Please submit sites dealing with the mathematics of error-control codes. Coding theory is not cryptography!

The mathematics of communications: entropy, information, channel capacity, Shannon's Theorems, coding and cryptography

MSC2000 categories
94A Communication, information
94B Theory of error-correcting codes and error-detecting codes

Complex Systems

"Complex systems" concerns the nature and consequences of interactions and non-linearities in systems of many objects. It includes topics such as artificial life, cellular automata, chaos, criticality, evolutionary computation, fractals, parallel computation, self-organization."

"Complex systems" is an emerging field of science which generalises certain aspects of sociology, biology, physics and other traditional disciplines of science, as well as engineering, management, and medicine. It deals with systems composed of number of smaller units (complex particles) and studies their mutual interaction and their interaction with the system environment.

Control Theory

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This category is for site concerned with the mathematical theory of systems and their control.
In engineering and mathematics, control theory deals with the behaviour of dynamical systems over time. The desired output of a system is called the reference variable. When one or more output variables of a system need to show a certain behaviour over time, a controller tries to manipulate the inputs of the system to realize this behaviour at the output of the system.

As an example, consider cruise control. In this case, the system is a car. The goal of cruise control is to keep the car at a constant speed. Here, the output variable of the system is the speed of the car. The primary means to control the speed of the car is the amount of gas being fed into the engine.

Events

Conferences, meetings, seminars and workshops dealing broadly with Applications of Mathematics.

Information Theory

Information theory has had a pervasive influence on a wide array of disciplines. Therefore, submissions to this category need not be directly related to information theory, though the influence of information theory on the submitted site should be clear.
Encyclopedia Britannica's says that "the chief concern of information theory is to discover mathematical laws governing systems designed to communicate or manipulate information. It sets up quantitative measures of information and of the capacity of various systems to transmit, store, and otherwise process information. Some of the problems treated are related to finding the best methods of using various available communication systems and the best methods for separating the wanted information, or signal, from the extraneous information, or noise".

The study of information theory is also concerned with the definition of notion of information in a general sense and with a unified information theory that is supposed to contain all the statements of existing information theories.

Mathematical Biology

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Applications and use of mathematics in the life sciences.

Mathematical Chemistry

Mathematics applied to Chemistry

Mathematical Economics and Financial Mathematics

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Applications of mathematics to economics and finance

MSC 2000 classes

Mathematical Geosciences

The application and use of mathematics in geology.

Mathematical Psychology

Applications of Mathematics to Psyschology: not the psychology of mathematicians!
Applications of Mathematics to Psyschology.

Organizations

Sites of professional applied mathematics organizations, including national and international organizations.

People

Researchers in the Applications of Mathematics.

Publications

Books, journal, newsletters and other publications in the Applications of Mathematics.

Research Groups

Research groups in applications of mathematics.

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