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Contents 1 Awards and Prizes in Mathematics 2 Applied math 3 Lead. 4 i hope you could help me 5 ??? 6 Einstein quote: not worth of an encyclopedia

[edit] Awards and Prizes in Mathematics

This should include the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for college undergraduates in the US and Canada. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.82.218.97 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Applied math

There is a great heterogeneity in the topics listed under applied math, and one of them seems misplaced to me.

I think most probabilisty students would agree that the area is more suited to the "Change" section. Even applied probability is too theoretical for most statisticians/numerical analysts/physicists and such.

--Lucas Gallindo (talk) 14:18, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Lead.

I am a bit confused by the phrase "patterns and other quantitative dimensions", mostly because I have no idea what a "quantitative dimension" is, and I honestly have no idea what this is supposed to mean. My best guess is that dimension is being used as a synonym for aspect. I was wondering how people felt about changing this sentence. I might suggest:

Mathematicians seek out patterns and other quantitative aspects of the entities they study, whether these entities are numbers, spaces, natural sciences, computers, or abstract concepts.

I like to critique my own work, so I would say the above sentence fails in that much of what some mathematics is could be thought of as qualitative and not quantitative. But adding the term qualitative then makes it sound as if mathematicians do everything under the sun. Also, the list of "entities" they study is necessarily eclectic, but I don't know particularly how to improve it. Does anyone object to me making this change?

As a last comment. One of the citations we give points to [1], which on my browser loads a blank page, are other people encountering this? Thenub314 (talk) 10:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] i hope you could help me

hello my name is arman jabari i come from iran and i am 18 years old i affirmed pythagores but i don't know i affirm it in a new way or someone have affirmed it from this way before could you guide me which way i have to know it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.219.195.15 (talk) 07:09, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit]  ???

hello i affirmed pythagores but i don't know i affirm it in a new way or someone have affirmed it from this way before could you guide me which way i have to know it my email is: arman.jabari@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.219.195.15 (talk) 07:26, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Einstein quote: not worth of an encyclopedia

Despite all his accomplishments, Einstein is not a mathemathecian or a philosopher of mathematics. Yet, we find one of his quote in the introduction of this article, which discusses about what are mathematics. To have a quote of Einstein in this particular article is a false appeal to an expert testimony, something an encyclopedia like wikipedia should avoid. 142.85.5.20 (talk) 01:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Although not a mathematician, Einstein was certainly a scientist, and made extensive use of mathematics in his work, so his views on the relationship between mathematics and science are relevant in the "Mathematics as science" section of the article. Other viewpoints are also presented. Wikipedia does not say that Einstein was right; it only quotes him as representative of a significant point of view. Gandalf61 (talk) 10:42, 3 July 2009 (UTC)