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.

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 ...

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 ...