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"Mathematics" is a b-side single from Mos Def's solo debut album, Black on Both Sides. It contains lyrics about various social issues and asks the listener to add them up and come to conclusions about them. Many references to numbers are found in this song and at times, Mos Def rhymes statistics in numerical order. Background The song highlights the differences between the White and African-American citizens of the US and uses the lyrics "Do your math..." - telling young African-Americans to 'do their maths' so they can avoid being part of the numerous degrading statistics he raps about in the opening and third verses of the song. The song is produced by DJ Premier whose famous scratch samples make up the song's bridge. Premier has called it one of his favorite beats. Premier also revealed that Scarface originally wanted the beat. He was recording his album The Last of a Dying Breed and wanted Premier to produce a song on it. However, Mos Def took the track and recorded something to it. Scarface later met up with Mos Def to tell him that he really wanted the track. Samples The bridge of "Mathematics" contains DJ Premier's signature scratched vocals from various hip hop songs. The lyrics of those samples as well as information about their origin can be found below:

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Rather like the way the Hubble Space Telescope has made a significant contribution to astronomy in enabling astronomers to discover hidden structures and properties of our distant universe, dynamic geometry software has allowed new worlds to become viewable and tangible in mathematics and particularly in geometry.”
— Hussein Abdelfatah, Hussein Abdelfatah Ph.D., Karlsruhe Germany (2011).
““There’s more to life than mathematics,” Joan said. “But not much more.””
— Greg Egan, Glory (2007) in Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (eds.) The New Space Opera (mass market paperback edition, ), p. 126
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.”
— David Hilbert, as quoted by Constance Reid, "Hilbert" (1970).
“In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson … of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.”
— Robert Musil, “Mathematical man” (1913).
“Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.”
— William Thomson, as quoted by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (1910) Vol. 2, p. 1124.
“The number 2 thought of by one man cannot be added to the number 2 thought of by another man so us to make up the number 4.”
— Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty (1958), p. 82.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

"Mathematics" is a b-side single from Mos Def's solo debut album, Black on Both Sides. It contains lyrics about various social issues and asks the listener to add them up and come to conclusions about them. Many references to numbers are found in this song and at times, Mos Def rhymes statistics in numerical order. Background The song highlights the differences between the White and African-American citizens of the US and uses the lyrics "Do your math..." - telling young African-Americans to 'do their maths' so they can avoid being part of the numerous degrading statistics he raps about in the opening and third verses of the song. The song is produced by DJ Premier whose famous scratch samples make up the song's bridge. Premier has called it one of his favorite beats. Premier also revealed that Scarface originally wanted the beat. He was recording his album The Last of a Dying Breed and wanted Premier to produce a song on it. However, Mos Def took the track and recorded something to it. Scarface later met up with Mos Def to tell him that he really wanted the track. Samples The bridge of "Mathematics" contains DJ Premier's signature scratched vocals from various hip hop songs. The lyrics of those samples as well as information about their origin can be found below:

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"Mathematics" is a b-side single from Mos Def's solo debut album, Black on Both Sides. It contains lyrics about various social issues and asks the listener to add them up and come to conclusions about them. Many references to numbers are found in this song and at times, Mos Def rhymes statistics in numerical order.

Notable quotes

“Rather like the way the Hubble Space Telescope has made a significant contribution to astronomy in enabling astronomers to discover hidden structures and properties of our distant universe, dynamic geometry software has allowed new worlds to become viewable and tangible in mathematics and particularly in geometry.”
— Hussein Abdelfatah, Hussein Abdelfatah Ph.D., Karlsruhe Germany (2011).
““There’s more to life than mathematics,” Joan said. “But not much more.””
— Greg Egan, Glory (2007) in Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (eds.) The New Space Opera (mass market paperback edition, ), p. 126
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.”
— David Hilbert, as quoted by Constance Reid, "Hilbert" (1970).
“In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson … of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.”
— Robert Musil, “Mathematical man” (1913).
“Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.”
— William Thomson, as quoted by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs (1910) Vol. 2, p. 1124.
“The number 2 thought of by one man cannot be added to the number 2 thought of by another man so us to make up the number 4.”
— Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty (1958), p. 82.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Mathematics across IJR

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