In today’s labour market, there is a strong and growing demand for mathematics and statistics, especially in the sectors of business, industry and technology. The UAB’s Department of Mathematics has published the book Fes Matemàtiques! in the hope of inspiring secondary-school students to pursue a career in this field. The goals of the book are as follows:
- To demonstrate some of the many applications of mathematics. Readers will explore a broad spectrum of topics, including music, football pools, genetics, image processing, encoding, finance and astronomy.
- To pose problems, categorised by degree of difficulty, in ten different mathematical specialisations, including topology, arithmetic, optimisation, numerical experimentation and statistics.
- To offer mathematical entertainment.
- To take readers on a journey through the history of mathematics, featuring the biographies of important mathematicians and a selection of references on science in general and mathematics in particular.
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