Lublin, Poland

Mathematics

Matematyka

Bachelor's - engineer
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Mathematics at PL

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: mathematics and statistics
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: pollub.pl/en

Test: check whether Mathematics is the right major for you!

Matematyka test

1. Do you enjoy solving abstract problems and thinking in logical, structured ways?

2. Are you curious about why things work, wanting rigorous proofs rather than just answers?

3. Do you enjoy recognizing patterns and generalizing from examples?

4. Are you interested in using mathematics to model real-world phenomena (physics, economics, biology)?

5. Do you enjoy programming or using computational tools to explore mathematical ideas?

6. Are you motivated by precision, correctness, and careful reasoning even when it’s challenging?

7. Do you enjoy learning new abstract frameworks (e.g., algebra, topology, analysis) and seeing their connections?

8. Are you comfortable working independently on tough problems and persisting through setbacks?

9. Are you interested in communicating mathematical ideas clearly to others (teaching, explaining, writing)?

10. Do you enjoy discovering elegant solutions or proofs that simplify complex problems?

Definitions and quotes

Mathematics
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change. It has no generally accepted definition.
Mathematics
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases... mental power... Probably nothing in the modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to learn that, under the influence of compulsory education, the whole population of Western Europe, from the highest to the lowest, could perform the operation of division for the largest numbers. This fact would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility.
Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911) Ch. 5, p. 59.
Mathematics
An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.
Hannah Fry, The Mathematics of Love (2015), p. 104.
Mathematics
If you are interested in the ultimate character of the physical world, or the complete world, and at the present time our only way to understand that is through the mathematical type of reasoning... the great depth of character of the universality of the laws, the relationships of things... I don't know any other way to do it, we don't know any other way to describe it accurately... or to see the interrelationships without it... don't misunderstand me, there are many, many aspects of the world that mathematics is unnecessary for... but we were talking about physics... to not know mathematics is a severe limitation in understanding the world.
Richard Feynman, "The Rules of the Game," The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)
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