<p>mdx49:</p>
<p>That’s because they were unquestionably at the top of the food chain in undergraduate math 20-120 years ago. This is no longer the case. You have to look at its current status, not the sum of dominance that occured decades ago.</p>
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<p>mlee:</p>
<p>Yes, Stanford has an applied math department. It’s very good, as I can tell you from personal experience. Probably better than their pure mathematics department, even. </p>
<p>I don’t know much about Harvard’s, though. Sorry.</p>