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Latest revision as of 12:45, 16 October 2016
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space, time, motion, change, and measurement.
See:
Contents
Definition
There is a range of views among mathematicians and philosophers as to the exact scope and definition of mathematics.
Patterns and conjectures
Mathematicians seek out patterns and use them to formulate new conjectures.
Mathematical proof
Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof.
Physics
When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning can provide insight or predictions about nature.
See Physics.
Fundamental principles
Through the use of abstraction and logic, mathematics developed from:
- Counting
- Calculation
- Measurement
- The systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects
History
Practical mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written records exist.
Effort required
The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry.
See also
And:
- Abstraction (mathematics)
- Algebra
- Algorithm
- Approximation
- Arithmetic
- Axiom
- Binomial
- Boolean algebra
- Calculus
- Computation
- Conjecture
- Constant (mathematics)
- Element (mathematics)
- Engineering
- Equation
- Expression (mathematics)
- Formal language
- Formal system
- Formula (mathematics)
- Foundations of mathematics
- Fractal
- Function (mathematics)
- Geometry
- How to Solve It
- Integer
- Logic
- Logarithm
- Mandelbrot set
- Mathematical analysis
- Mathematical beauty
- Mathematical constant
- Mathematical logic
- Mathematical notation
- Mathematical object
- Mathematical proof
- Mathematical theory
- Mathematician
- Mathematics and architecture
- Mathematics and art
- Music theory
- Natural number
- Number
- Number sense
- Number system
- Number theory
- Numeral system
- Numerical analysis
- Operand
- Operation (mathematics)
- Permutation
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Pi
- Polar coordinate system
- Power of two
- Quantity
- Radix
- Real number
- Recursion
- Rounding
- Scaling (geometry)
- Self-reference
- Signal
- Solution space
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
- Topology
- Truth value
- Turing machine
- Value (mathematics)
- Variable (mathematics)
- Zero
External links
- Mathematics @ Wikipedia
