Mathematics is used widely, playing a central role in science and engineering and increasingly in the social and biological sciences. But users seldom consider the fundamental nature of mathematics.

Problematics!!! Maybe this is the new definition of mathematics in our time. Mathematics is so much of a problem to many a people that sometimes I wonder whether the word problematic was coined out of ...

When I tell someone I am a mathematician, one of the most curious common reactions is: “I really liked math class because everything was either right or wrong. There is no ambiguity or doubt.” I ...