For a long time, software was considered by patent law as a form of applied math.

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He wanted to move on to college to study applied math and computer science.

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"Jeff has very strong applied-math capabilities, " says Andrew Braccia, an Accel Partners venture capitalist who worked with Weiner at Yahoo.

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