Hello Kartik. Thanks for contacting Careers360 and we hope we will be able to answer your query.

I would like to elaborate a little on my answer.

Technically speaking, Computer Science is also a branch of Mathematics, at least in its classical sense.

Hence, Machine Learning is very much an interdisciplinary field within the mathematical and computational sciences, at the intersection of Computer Science, Statistics and Artificial Intelligence.

I would please advice you to see these following Quora questions:

• https://www.quora.com/If-I-want-to-work-in-Machine-Learning-and-artificial-Intelligence-should-I-major-in-Math-CS-or-Statistics-CS
• https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-mathematical-pre-requisites-for-studying-machine-learning
• https://www.quora.com/Does-a-masters-degree-in-Applied-Mathematics-offer-good-career-prospects-in-Machine-Learning-AI

The major opinion of the researchers is that ML and AI have a lot of maths inbuilt in them. So, you can very well do your masters in Applied Maths. But, at the same time, please try to get some work opportunities where you can also show your coding skills.

Hope this helps you and all the best!