Interdisciplinarity for the 21st Century

Interdisciplinarity has become increasingly important for emergent professions of the 21st century yetthere is a dearth of systematic studies aimed at implementing it in the school and university curricula. TheMathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS ) group places Mathematics as avehicle through which deep and meaningful connections can be forged with the Arts and the Sciences andas a means of promoting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary thinking traits amongst students. The ThirdInternational Symposium held by the MACAS group in Moncton Canada in 2009 included numerous initiativesand ideas for interdisciplinarity that are implementable in both the school and university setting. The chapters in this book cover interdisciplinarylinks with mathematics found in the domains of culture art aesthetics music cognition history philosophy engineering technology and sciencewith contributors from Canada U.S Denmark Germany Mexico Iran and Poland amongst others.