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== In the News ==
== In the News ==


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


* [[Crimes against mathematical constants]]
* [[Forbidden Ratio]]
* [[Forbidden Ratio]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Mathematics]]
* [[Mathematics]]
* [[Mathematician]]
* [[Mathematician]]
* [[Nathaniel Torporley (nonfiction)]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (nonfiction)]]
* [[Ibn al-Haytham (nonfiction)]]
* [[Jordanus de Nemore (nonfiction)]]
* [[Geometry (nonfiction)]]
* [[Geometry (nonfiction)]]
* [[Mathematics (nonfiction)]]
* [[Mathematics (nonfiction)]]
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematician Mathematician] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematician Mathematician] @ Wikipedia


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Latest revision as of 13:26, 26 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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