Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom
Mathematics
Bachelor's
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⇑Mathematics at Keele University
Language:
English
Subject area: mathematics and statistics
Qualification: BSc
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
The Keele course is designed to cover many different types of mathematical thinking and to illustrate its applicability in a range of practical contexts. As you progress, you will be able to select modules that reflect your personal interests and aptitudes. Students arrive from a range of mathematical backgrounds. To ensure that all new students are suitably prepared, we offer diagnostic testing facilities. Moreover, within the tutoring system, support is available to consolidate mathematical capability and to facilitate successful progression through the course. Although many students will have studied some statistics or mechanics at A-level, specific knowledge of either area is not assumed.
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⇑Definitions and quotes
Mathematics
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change. It has no generally accepted definition.
Mathematics
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases... mental power... Probably nothing in the modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to learn that, under the influence of compulsory education, the whole population of Western Europe, from the highest to the lowest, could perform the operation of division for the largest numbers. This fact would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility.
Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911) Ch. 5, p. 59.
Mathematics
An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.
Hannah Fry, The Mathematics of Love (2015), p. 104.
Mathematics
If you are interested in the ultimate character of the physical world, or the complete world, and at the present time our only way to understand that is through the mathematical type of reasoning... the great depth of character of the universality of the laws, the relationships of things... I don't know any other way to do it, we don't know any other way to describe it accurately... or to see the interrelationships without it... don't misunderstand me, there are many, many aspects of the world that mathematics is unnecessary for... but we were talking about physics... to not know mathematics is a severe limitation in understanding the world.
Richard Feynman, "The Rules of the Game," The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)
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