• A mathematical practitioner is a term applied to a range of craftsmen, technicians and teachers who used mathematics in a practical way, particularly between...
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    famous ancient works on mathematics came from Egypt in the form of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus and the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus. The more famous...
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    Compound interest (category Mathematical finance)
    such as the valuation of property leases. Witt was a London mathematical practitioner and his book is notable for its clarity of expression, depth of...
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    six significant decimal digits). Babylonian mathematics is a range of numeric and more advanced mathematical practices in the ancient Near East, written...
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    English printer specialising in mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and mathematical lexicographer. He produced the...
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    ISBN 1-4020-4245-0. Johnston, Stephen (1995), The identity of the mathematical practitioner in 16th-century England, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford...
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    pseudomathematics can result in the practitioner being labelled a crank. Because it is based on non-mathematical principles, pseudomathematics is not...
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  • JSTOR 2708083. Stephen Johnston (1995). "The identity of the mathematical practitioner in 16th-century England". Museum of the History of Science, Oxford...
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  • empirical predictions. Mathematical theories often have predictive power in describing nature. Wigner argues that mathematical concepts have applicability...
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    Thomas Geminus (category Mathematical practitioners)
    Thomas Geminus (c. 1510 – May 1562) was a pseudonym for the Flemish refugee Thomas Lambrit/Thomas Lambert, an engraver and printer, active from the 1540s...
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  • mathematical nuggets. The issues are published in the exact moments of the equinox. Prominent practitioners and advocates of recreational mathematics...
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  • University Press. Johnston, Stephen (1995), The identity of the mathematical practitioner in 16th-century England, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford...
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    Pythagorean theorem (category Greek mathematics)
    (2008). Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. Princeton University Press.: p. 109 "Many Old Babylonian mathematical practitioners … knew that...
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  • offices of the practitioner, the surgeon Doctor's surgery, British term for a doctor's office, a facility in which a general practitioner sees patients...
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  • than the literal content created by a practitioner. For example, formalists within mathematics claim that mathematics is no more than the symbols written...
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  • ISBN 978-1-84765-855-5. Bosse, David (1995). "Osgood Carleton, Mathematical Practitioner of Boston". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society...
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  • Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (category British historians of mathematics)
    Taylor (1879–1966), author of The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England and The Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England Archived...
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    Nicholas Kratzer (category Mathematical practitioners)
    scientific circle around Sir Thomas More. Kratzer tutored More's children in mathematics and astronomy and More introduced him at court in much the same way as...
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  • Mathematical economics is the application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics. Often, these applied methods...
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  • expedition and his subsequent attempts to forge a career as a teacher, mathematical practitioner and longitude projector. In 1760 Waddington was appointed by the...
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    ISBN 978-3-642-33071-1. Johnston, Stephen (1995), The identity of the mathematical practitioner in 16th-century England, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford...
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  • Mathematical maturity often refers to the mastery of the way mathematicians think, operate and communicate. It pertains to a mixture of mathematical experience...
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  • 18 July 2011. Subscription required, citing Taylor, E. G. R.: Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England, 1714–1840 (Cambridge: CUP, 1966); Napoleon...
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  • Multiplication and repeated addition (category Mathematics education)
    Addition". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 30 March 2012. Devlin, Keith (July–August 2008). "It's Still Not Repeated Addition". Mathematical Association...
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    competition, such as the USA Mathematical Olympiad, or the International Mathematical Olympiad. All students in STEM, especially mathematics, physics, chemistry...
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    Diploma in Mathematical Finance at Oxford University Applied Mathematical Finance Wilmott, Paul "The use, misuse and abuse of mathematics in finance."...
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  • An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories...
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    88 (Oxoniensia pdf). Cormack, Lesley B. (2017). "Mathematics for Sale: Mathematical Practitioners, Instrument Makers, and Communities of Scholars in...
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    Institute for Mathematical Sciences was founded in Muizenberg near Cape Town by Neil Turok in 2003, while he was Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge...
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  • Financial engineering (category Mathematical finance)
    tools of mathematics and the practice of programming. It has also been defined as the application of technical methods, especially from mathematical finance...
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