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Engineering is often associated with formulas, calculations and technical problem-solving. Those areas are important, but they represent only one part of what engineers learn.

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Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to solve the complex math problems arising from applications of math to the real world.