applied mathematics - the branches of mathematics that are involved in the study of the physical or biological or sociological worldmath, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement linear programming - a mathematical technique used in economics; finds the maximum or minimum of linear functions in many variables subject to constraints statistics - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters |