Can ' t stand those posts <| sep |> Unfair competition . Military officials openly supporting the ConservativesUsing military assets to help out a vacationing conservative party member at his lake cabin . <| sep |> Pure math is really just math for the sake of math . There ' s a lot more proof involved and a lot less emphasis on real work applications , not to say there isn ' t any . In other words , it ' s all logical thinking and you get down to the gnitty gritty of math in classes like number theory and symbolic logic . Applied math is math that is a lot more applicable to physics , engineering , finance , biology , etc . That ' s not to say you won ' t learn the same logical thinking as a pure math degree , it will just be less rigorous . If anything , I say an applied math degree is a better choice for more career options but taking a few pure math electives could improve you ' re ability to code well .