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Real-world applications of mathematics, by arxiv subject area?

What are the most important applications outside of mathematics of each of the major fields of mathematics? For concreteness, let's divide up mathematics according to arxiv mathema …
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Rectifying texture from image

I have a camera matrix $P$ which defines a projective transformation $\mathbb{P}^3 \rightarrow \mathbb{P}^2$. In the former space there is a plane $[ x|\pi^Tx=0 ]$. The image of th …
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Defining “average rank” when not every ranking covers the whole set

Here's a mathematical modeling problem I came across while working on a hobby project. I have a website that presents each visitor with a list of movie titles. The user has to ran …
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Applications of the Chinese remainder theorem

As the title suggests I am interested in CRT applications. Wikipedia article on CRT lists some of the well known applications (e.g. used in the RSA algorithm, used to construct an …
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Applications of infinite Ramsey’s Theorem (on N)?

Finite Ramsey's theorem is a very important combinatorial tool that is often used in mathematics. The infinite version of Ramsey's theorem (Ramsey's theorem for colorings of tuples …
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Archaeogenetics

This question is meant to be applied to recover historic information from genetic data. The following model, is (probably) the simplest possible which takes recombinations into ac …
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Applications of propositional dynamic logic

Propositional dynamic logic (PDL) is an example of a (multi)modal logic with a structure on the set of modalities. In particular, the set of its modalities is indexed by "programs" …