He knew music, classical to serial, and the history of mathematics, and a hundred other things.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

Each community organises the schooling for its own children, setting a separate curriculum for subjects as contentious as history and as universal as mathematics.

BBC: Vlado and Serdjan are friends in a multi-ethnic school

At the intersection between history, astronomy, mathematics and craftsmanship, sundials have inspired specialist walks, tours, conferences, magazines and societies.

ECONOMIST: Gnomonic possession

Backed by their powerful subject associations, science, history, mathematics, languages and other subjects arrogate to themselves as much compulsory curricular time as they can manage, forcing everything else to the margins.

BBC: Viewpoints: National curriculum in England

L.V. requires you to take two courses in English (Composition and World Literature), one course in philosophy, one course in either history or political science, courses in chemistry, mathematics, and economics, and two electives in the arts and humanities.

NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

He bought thousands of books including works on music, mathematics, astronomy, history, geography, magic, theology and philosophy.

ECONOMIST: Spanish empire

In the secondary sector, cuts range from 19% in the case of trainee history teachers to small increases in the number of places for religious education and mathematics.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Teacher training places reduced