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Mathematics is Indisputably the Greatest Subject in the World

The 2024 Presidential Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2024

Nira Chamberlain
Nira Chamberlain*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF e-mail: [email protected]
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A good friend of mine asked, if mathematicians are not proud of their subject, then who on earth will be? No longer must our subject be seen as irrelevant, boring and a joke. And it starts in schools − full stop! Let’s call it as it is. Mathematics is Indisputably the Greatest Subject in the World.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 108 , Issue 573 , November 2024 , pp. 385 - 392
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© The Authors, 2024 Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mathematical Association

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