mathematics department

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mathematics
noun[U]
uk
/ˌmæθˈmæt.ɪks/us
/ˌmæθˈmæt̬.ɪks/
the study of numbers, shapes, and space using reason and usually a special system of symbols and rules for ...
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department
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/dɪˈpɑːt.mənt/us
/dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
a part of an organization such as a school, business, or government that deals with a particular area of study ...
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(Definition ofmathematicsanddepartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It houses both the administrative offices and themathematicsdepartment.
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This summer that school is losing from its largemathematicsdepartmenttwo men who take a high proportion of the sixth form work.
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But that might leave individual schools in the ludicrous position of having, say, no headmaster, no senior staff in themathematicsdepartment, and so on.
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During this time he oversaw the hiring of 24 faculty members in themathematicsdepartment.
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Beneath the main chapel is a majority of themathematicsdepartment.
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This is reflected institutionally: mathematical physicists are often members of themathematicsdepartment.
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She began looking for a teaching position, but found hostility in everymathematicsdepartment.
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He chaired themathematicsdepartmentfor about twenty years, one of the longest tenures.
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Because of our nature as a selective school, we had a finemathematicsdepartmentat post-16 level which could offer double mathematics and the whole range of mathematical studies.
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The astronomy courses were typically taught by themathematicsdepartmentand by the early 1890s, several mathematics instructors wanted to do more with astronomy.
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First, statistics is often taught as part of the mathematics curriculum, by instructors trained in mathematics and working in amathematicsdepartment.
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He was promoted from his junior post in the medical department of the academy to a position in themathematicsdepartment.
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