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  2. Humanities - Wikipedia

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    The study of the humanities was a key part of the secular curriculum in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of natural sciences, social sciences, formal sciences (like mathematics), and applied sciences (or professional training).

  3. Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities

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    Website. academy .bsu .edu. The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities ( The Indiana Academy) is a nationally ranked [2] public high school located on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. [3] The Academy offers both residential and non-residential (commuter) options for juniors and seniors.

  4. Humanities, arts, and social sciences - Wikipedia

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    Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ( HASS ), also known as social studies, is a broad term that groups together the academic disciplines of humanities, arts and social sciences. It is viewed as an academic counterpart to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in the United States, Canada, India, Australia, and other countries.

  5. Mathematical sociology - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical sociology. Mathematical Bridge, or officially Wooden Bridge, is an arch bridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self-supporting. Part of a series on.

  6. Mathematics and art - Wikipedia

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    The mathematician Jerry P. King describes mathematics as an art, stating that "the keys to mathematics are beauty and elegance and not dullness and technicality", and that beauty is the motivating force for mathematical research. King cites the mathematician G. H. Hardy's 1940 essay A Mathematician's Apology.

  7. Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences

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    The Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences is the heart of the undergraduate program and grants the majority of Stanford University 's degrees. The School has 27 departments and 20 interdisciplinary degree-granting programs. The School was officially created in 1948, from the merger of the Schools of Biological Sciences ...

  8. History of mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    The history of mathematical notation [1] includes the commencement, progress, and cultural diffusion of mathematical symbols and the conflict of the methods of notation confronted in a notation's move to popularity or inconspicuousness. Mathematical notation [2] comprises the symbols used to write mathematical equations and formulas.

  9. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of mathematical symbols. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various ...