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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]
* [[Forbidden Ratio]]
* [[Forbidden Ratio]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]

Revision as of 16:51, 16 December 2017

Careers in mathematics. WPA poster, circa 1936-1941.

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

Mathematics is concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models and change.

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