Table of Contents
101 relations: A Mathematician's Apology, A Mathematician's Miscellany, Abel Prize, Academy, Accounting, Actuary, Age of Enlightenment, Al-Khwarizmi, American Mathematical Society, Analytical skill, Applied mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, Astronomy, Autonomy, Balzan Prize, Business, Calipers, Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, Chern Medal, Concept, Crafoord Prize, Critical thinking, Data, Derivative (finance), Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Doctorate, Economics, Edward Frenkel, Engineering, Euclid, Fields Medal, François Viète, Frederick William III of Prussia, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. H. Hardy, Geometry, Gerolamo Cardano, Humboldt University of Berlin, Hypatia, Ibn al-Haytham, IMU Abacus Medal, Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Isaac Newton, John Edensor Littlewood, Laboratory, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Luca Pacioli, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Mark Kac, Master's degree, ... Expand index (51 more) »
- Mathematical science occupations
- Mathematicians
A Mathematician's Apology
A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy, which offers a defence of the pursuit of mathematics.
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A Mathematician's Miscellany
A Mathematician's Miscellany is an autobiography and collection of anecdotes by John Edensor Littlewood.
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Abel Prize
The Abel Prize (Abelprisen) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.
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Academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership).
Accounting
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations.
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Actuary
An actuary is a professional with advanced mathematical skills who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty. Mathematician and actuary are mathematical science occupations.
Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Al-Khwarizmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (محمد بن موسى خوارزمی), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
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American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.
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Analytical skill
Analytical skill is the ability to deconstruct information into smaller categories in order to draw conclusions.
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Applied mathematics
Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry.
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Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.
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Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.
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Autonomy
In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
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Balzan Prize
The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man.
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Business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).
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Calipers
Caliper(s) or calliper(s) are an instrument used to measure the dimensions of an object or hole; namely, the length, width, thickness, diameter or depth of an object or hole.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize
The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics is a mathematics award, granted jointly by the International Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society for "outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics".
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Chern Medal
The Chern Medal is an international award recognizing outstanding lifelong achievement of the highest level in the field of mathematics.
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Concept
A concept is defined as an abstract idea.
Crafoord Prize
The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord.
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Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, skeptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation.
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Data
In common usage, data is a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally.
Derivative (finance)
In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity.
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Dictionary of Occupational Titles
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles or D-O-T (DOT) refers to a publication produced by the United States Department of Labor which helped employers, government officials, and workforce development professionals to define over 13,000 different types of work, from 1938 to the late 1990s.
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Doctorate
A doctorate (from Latin doctor, meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism licentia docendi ("licence to teach").
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Economics
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Edward Frenkel
Edward Vladimirovich Frenkel (born May 2, 1968) is a Russian-American mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics.
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Engineering
Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.
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Euclid
Euclid (Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.
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François Viète
François Viète, Seigneur de la Bigotière (Franciscus Vieta; 1540 – 23 February 1603), commonly known by his mononym, Vieta, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to his innovative use of letters as parameters in equations.
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Frederick William III of Prussia
Frederick William III (Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840.
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity.
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G. H. Hardy
Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis.
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Geometry
Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
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Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano (also Girolamo or Geronimo; Jérôme Cardan; Hieronymus Cardanus.; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler.
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Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
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Hypatia
Hypatia (born 350–370; died 415 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Ibn al-Haytham
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen;; full name أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.
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IMU Abacus Medal
The IMU Abacus Medal, known before 2022 as the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, is awarded once every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU), for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the Fordham University History Department and Center for Medieval Studies.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
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John Edensor Littlewood
John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician.
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Laboratory
A laboratory (colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.
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Leroy P. Steele Prize
The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics.
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Luca Pacioli
Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, O.F.M. (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; 1447 – 19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.
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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor.
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Mark Kac
Mark Kac (Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician.
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Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
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Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level.
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Mathematical model
A mathematical model is an abstract description of a concrete system using mathematical concepts and language.
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Mathematical problem
A mathematical problem is a problem that can be represented, analyzed, and possibly solved, with the methods of mathematics.
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Mathematical sciences
The mathematical sciences are a group of areas of study that includes, in addition to mathematics, those academic disciplines that are primarily mathematical in nature but may not be universally considered subfields of mathematics proper.
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Mathematical structure
In mathematics, a structure is a set provided with some additional features on the set (e.g. an operation, relation, metric, or topology).
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Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematician and mathematician are mathematical science occupations and mathematicians.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
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Michael Harris (mathematician)
Michael Howard Harris (born 1954) is an American mathematician known for his work in number theory.
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Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
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Neal Koblitz
Neal I. Koblitz (born December 24, 1948) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington.
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Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
The Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics is awarded biennially from Northwestern University.
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Nicolo Tartaglia
Nicolo, known as Tartaglia (1499/1500 – 13 December 1557), was an Italian mathematician, engineer (designing fortifications), a surveyor (of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense) and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
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Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician and philosopher.
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Number
A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label.
Numerical analysis
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics).
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Optics
Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.
Paul Halmos
Paul Richard Halmos (Halmos Pál; 3 March 3 1916 – 2 October 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and statistician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
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Physics
Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree.
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Prelim
The term prelim (short for preliminary examination) generally refers to an examination that qualifies a student to continue studies at a higher level, and/or allow the student to comprehend their studies and see how prepared they are for an upcoming examination.
Professional
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
Pure mathematics
Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
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Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans.
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Quantity
Quantity or amount is a property that can exist as a multitude or magnitude, which illustrate discontinuity and continuity.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Research
Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor.
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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke (18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect.
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Robert Recorde
Robert Recorde was a Welsh physician and mathematician.
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Rolf Schock Prizes
The Rolf Schock Prizes were established and endowed by bequest of philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933–1986).
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Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
Seminar
A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization.
Share price
A share price is the price of a single share of a number of saleable equity shares of a company.
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Shaw Prize
The Shaw Prize refers to three annual awards presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in the fields of astronomy, medicine and life sciences, and mathematical sciences.
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Space
Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions.
Stanisław Ulam
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist.
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Statistician
A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. Mathematician and statistician are mathematical science occupations.
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Stochastic calculus
Stochastic calculus is a branch of mathematics that operates on stochastic processes.
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Stock
Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.
Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus (Θαλῆς) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor.
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Thales's theorem
In geometry, Thales's theorem states that if,, and are distinct points on a circle where the line is a diameter, the angle is a right angle.
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Thesis
A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.
Thomas Simpson
Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals.
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Undergraduate education
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education, usually in a college or university.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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Valuation of options
In finance, a price (premium) is paid or received for purchasing or selling options.
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Wolf Prize
The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people...
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See also
Mathematical science occupations
- Actuarial credentialing and exams
- Actuary
- Enrolled actuary
- Financial risk management
- Mathemagician
- Mathematician
- Mathematics education
- Methodological advisor
- Statistician
Mathematicians
- Cyprián Karásek Lvovický
- Lists of mathematicians
- Mathematician
- Mental calculators
- Women in mathematics
References
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