Mathematics

Knowledge of abstract structure established by proof from stated assumptions. Mathematics offers the nearest thing to certainty available to a knower, and raises the sharpest questions about what its objects are and why so much of it turns out to describe the world.

Through the knowledge framework

Knowledge questions

  • 01What questions can this area of knowledge answer that no other can?
  • 02Can a discipline be about something that cannot be observed?
  • 03Does every area of knowledge aim at explanation?

Scope in mathematics, in full

Mathematics as a TOK area of knowledge | TOK Knowledge Base