Mathematics Knowledge Questions
Reproducible research in Mathematics
Davie Nield. 3,700 Year Old Babylonia Stone Tablet Gets Translated, changes history. Science Alert. 30 November 2023.
What is Math? The Smithsonian - 10 min read
Interview on Nova with Andrew Wiles who proved Fermat's Last Theorem.
Chang, Kenneth "Abel Prize Goes to Mathematician Who Studied Equations that Describe Nature." The New York Times. 22 March 2023.
Magic Numbers: Can Maths equations be beautiful? The Guardian. 12 min read - includes three short videos
The Foundations of Mathematics are Unproven 5 min read
Mathematics as Thought - The Secret Intellectual History of Mathematics 7 min read
The Art of Counting - BBC More or Less: Behind the Stats. 9 minute listen.
Why Do Humans Have Numbers: How Natural is Numeracy? article ** 10 minute read
Yes, mathematics can be decolonized. The Conversation.com, Article ** 6 minute read.
What is Mathematics. The New Yorker. 2 March 2021. 5 min read.
Why Math is an Art and not a Science - article ** 10 minute read
The Epiphanies of Mathematics 8 min read
Scope of Maths - Dang and Dang
A mathematical statement that we know is true and which has a proof is a theorem. ... So if a statement is always true and doesn't need proof, it is an axiom. If it needs a proof, it is a conjecture. A statement that has been proven by logical arguments based on axioms, is a theorem.
Andrew Wiles video on Why Doing Maths is enjoyable - click and then scroll down a bit to get the video piece.
"Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles" The Proof - transcript of interview
Platonists and Formalists -World Science Fair - 6 min video
A brief history of numerical systems. TedEd. -5 min video
The Mathematics of History - 5 min video Ted Ed
TedTalk - Math is the Hidden Secret to Understanding the World. 17 min video
Mathematics is a sense you thought you never had. TedTalk, Eddie Woo. 13 mins.
The Beauty and Power of Mathematics. TEDtalk. 12 mins.
Do mathematical symbols have meaning in the same way that words have meaning?
Does mathematics only yield knowledge about the real world when it is combined with other areas of knowledge?
Why is mathematics so important in other areas of knowledge, particularly the natural sciences?
If mathematics is created by (wo)man, why do we sometimes feel that mathematical truths are objective facts about the world rather than something constructed by human beings?