Katowice, Poland

Mathematics

Matematyka

Bachelor's
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Mathematics at UŚ

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: mathematics and statistics
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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University website: us.edu.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
“It’s magic,” the chief cook concluded, in awe.
“No, not magic,” the ship’s doctor replied. “It’s much more. It’s mathematics.”
David Brin, Glory Season (1993), chapter 24
Mathematics
Mathematical development in England was at a low ebb in the early decades of the nineteenth century, with Cambridge stagnating in the shadow of Newton, who had produced his mathematics nearly a century and a half earlier. This dead hand of tradition, which stifled much initiative and originality, was in sharp contrast to the situation in France.
D. Mary Cannell, "George Green Mathematician and Physicist 1793-1841: The background to his life and work" p. xxviii (second edition, 2001).
Mathematics
I united the majority of well-informed persons into a club, which we called by the name of the Junto, and the object of which was to improve our understandings. ... The first members of our club were...
Thomas Godfrey, a self-taught mathematician, and afterwards inventor of what is now called Hadley's dial; but he had little knowledge out of his own line, and was insupportable in company, always requiring, like the majority of mathematicians that have fallen in my way, an unusual precision in everything that is said, continually contradicting, or making trifling distinctions—a sure way of defeating all the ends of conversation. He very soon left us.
Benjamin Franklin, The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1839)
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