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I'm not sure that the "two cultures" split aligns with continuous vs. discrete maths. There's theory-building in continuous mathematics (abstract spaces, e.g. topological, metric, Banach, ... spaces) and in discrete mathematics (theory of finite fields), whereas both areas also have computational / problem-solving aspects (proving specific inequalities in the continuous case, or proving theorems about particular kinds of graphs in the discrete case).


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