What is Mathematics

Abstract

In the AustMS Gazette 32 (2005), 146–147, the question above was included in a letter to the Editor. Readers were asked for their responses in one or two sentences. Below is the set of responses, pseudo-randomly ordered and without comment. Respondents sometimes included extra information about themselves or their perspectives and some of these have been included. The respondents were readers of the Gazette who identified themselves as mathematicians or users of mathematics, and a group of people involved in the mathematics education of teachers.