Cai Xiaohao (Master of Computational Mathematics in 2006): Computational Mathematics is a very important subject at home and abroad, which mainly studies scientific engineering calculation and other issues. Because interdisciplinary research brings many new research directions, there are many research directions of computational mathematics. Now the hottest direction should be numerical solutions of differential equations, numerical algebra, manifold learning, especially manifold learning, which has been hot for several years and is expected to continue to be hot.

Pan Yili (Master of Computational Mathematics in 2007): Computational Mathematics is a science specialty formed by the intersection of mathematics, physics, computer science, operational research and control science. As an interdisciplinary subject, it has broad development prospects. There are many researches with practical physical application background (such as fluid mechanics, optical waveguides, photonic crystals, etc.). ) and many problems to be solved. Engineering students often don't know how to solve mathematical problems because of their lack of practical mathematical calculation ability, which requires mathematics majors to use their own mathematical background to solve these problems.

Sophia (Master of Computational Mathematics in 2006): Simply put, Computational Mathematics is a major that does calculations for physics and engineering. Personally, I think finite element is a hot direction now and in the future. Xi Jiaotong University is one of the first three universities in China to establish computational mathematics, which is a national key discipline. On the basis of maintaining the advantages of the main research directions of applied mathematics and computational mathematics, we attach importance to and strengthen the research on the mathematical basis of information science, scientific calculation, modern optimization, data analysis and statistical calculation, numerical simulation of electronic systems, mathematical modeling of biological systems, and have a group of experts and scholars such as Cheng Zhengxing, Hou, Ma and Zhang Ke. Universities with strong computational mathematics disciplines include Peking University, Sun Yat-sen University, Jilin University, Dalian University of Technology, Xiangtan University, Zhejiang University, China University of Science and Technology, Shandong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Hunan University and Shanghai University.