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Mathematics in sentence

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The mathematics curriculum that we have is based on a foundation of arithmetic and algebra.
But I'm here to say, as a professor of mathematics, that very few people actually use calculus in a conscious, meaningful way, in their day-to-day lives.
I mean, probability and statistics, it's the mathematics of games and gambling.
In college, she studied mathematics and philosophy, before taking a research position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pay for grad school.
We make it come alive with equations, a lot of mathematics.
So, we have the mathematics to make neurons come alive.
We also have the mathematics to describe how neurons collect information, and how they create a little lightning bolt to communicate with each other.
And we've got the mathematics to describe this process.
At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities.
There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics.
Certainly not the language of mathematics, in which, Galileo rightly said, the book of nature is written.
This is how he wrote most of his mathematics.
Maybe the fact that he stayed up all night doing mathematics was the fact that he was such a bad shot that morning and got killed.
What crystals are possible, we can understand through the mathematics of symmetry.
And I think Galileo summed up, very nicely, the power of mathematics to understand the scientific world around us.
I think one of the problems about school mathematics is it doesn't look at how mathematics is embedded in the world we live in.
And the power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
Now, I'm a great believer that mathematics is not a spectator sport, and you have to do some mathematics in order to really understand it.
It's all the unanswered questions which make mathematics a living subject.
This is the mathematics of metaphor.
Maybe it's something special in his brain that allows him to make tools or to have mathematics.
The Internet starts with mathematics, it starts with binary.
So we did some mathematics to study the size of these clusters.
And I think that my mathematics, surprisingly enough, has been of great help to the surgeons studying lung illnesses and also kidney illnesses, all these branching systems, for which there was no geometry.
One of the shattering events in the history of mathematics, which is not appreciated by many people, occurred about 130 years ago, 145 years ago.
It was very important, but mostly interesting because a kind of break, a separation between the mathematics coming from reality, on the one hand, and new mathematics coming from pure man's mind.
So it was in 1875 to 1925, an extraordinary period in which mathematics prepared itself to break out from the world.
When I first told it to my friends in mathematics they said, "Don't be silly.
He did not know the mathematics; it didn't yet exist.
So they got the big [Fields] medal in mathematics, one of the three medals that people have received for proving things which I've seen without being able to prove them.
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