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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2006-09-21 07:20 am
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Time for a poll

I needed an excuse to use the user pic voted most popular by a random sample of sentient beings. I've also had some interesting on and off line convos and comments about math(s) recently so I thought what we really need is more ticky boxes. Lo, I bring you the great math(s) poll!

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[identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com 2006-09-21 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I went to university and eventually got a BA in Maths (yeah, Oxford's weird)

But a mathematician friend at Oxford assured me that, at degree level, mathematics is an art, not a science.

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2006-09-21 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
At Oxford, even engineering is an art.
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[personal profile] lnr 2006-09-21 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It's true that Maths is somewhere inbetween Arts and Science and is neither fish nor fowl, although you can choose options that tailor it closer to one or the other.

But *everything* at Oxford gets you a BA to start with. And in fact my degree is technically in "Mathematical sciences".