Complex sentence: Instead of dwelling on'traditional' areas such as arithmetic and geometry, SMP dwelt on subjects such as set theory, graph theory and logic, non-cartesian co-ordinate systems, matrix mathematics, affine transforms, vectors and non-decimal number systems.
Split into simpler sentences: Instead of dwelling on traditional areas such as arithmetic and geometry, SMP dwelt on set theory, graph theory and logic. It taught non-cartesian co-ordinate systems, matrix mathematics, affine transforms, vectors and non-decimal number systems.