What's the most practical "branch" of mathematics for someone who would like to learn it out of pure interest or pragmatic reasons and not as a career? What would help most with everyday life?

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>>16696382
Not math

>>16696391
there's a little math involved.
OP asked for practicality.

>>16696382
Don't hurt me like that

>>16696371 (OP)
propositional logic

>>16696371 (OP)
Geometry

>>16696424
Do I also need to study the blade?

>>16696371 (OP)
practical is needed, you need to be in touch with academia
find math oriented community/forum and hang around

>>16696371 (OP)
statistics
followed by geometry
nothing else is really very practically useful

>>16696965
Is there a retard-friendly /sci/ chart someone can share for statistics books?

>>16696487
Most likely

>>16696371 (OP)
Depends on your job or area of interest, day-to-day the most useful are arithmetic, algebra and combinatorics

>>16696371 (OP)
Group theory or scientific computing/numerical methods.

>>16696371 (OP)
I'd say the ones I like the most: PDEs, numerical methods, approximation theory.

I just find it interesting and at the same time they get a lot of use in engineering and technology. You need a solid base in linear algebra and calculus for all of those. I'd say that if you don't come out of university knowing calculus and linear algebra university has failed you.

>>16696371 (OP)
Graph theory and (combinatorial) optimization. Show up everywhere.

>>16697017
No such thing. All statistics books are shit. Not mathematical enough. Not practical enough. Not comprehensive enough. Not to mention everyone seems to have their own definition of what constitutes “Statistics”. Each field also has their own version of statistics. Statistics book for machine learning and physics guys are totally different.

>>16696371 (OP)
Sadly, the useful math is not actually developed. Mathematicians study complex topics while the useful basic concepts are in effect *universally* overlooked. In part because they're actually very difficult to formulate, while simultaneously appearing too basic to justify months of research into.