mathematics 
math·emat·ics (mat̸h′ə mat′iks)
noun
- the group of sciences (including arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus, etc.) dealing with quantities, magnitudes, and forms, and their relationships, attributes, etc., by the use of numbers and symbols
- the act or process of using any of these sciences; computation
Etymology: see mathematical & -ics
mathematics
n.
science of numbers, language of numbers, computation, reckoning, calculation, correlation and deduction of numbers, new math, math; see also arithmetic, science 1.Branches of mathematics include: arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, trig*, calculus, calc*, statistics, topology, geodesy, Fourier analysis, game theory, set theory, number theory, systems analysis, quadratics.
Commonly used mathematical terms include: number, fraction, symbol, equation, function, variable, constant, average, mean, median, mode, locus, graph, formula, square, square root, volume, cube, curve, circle, sector, segment, derivative, cube root, sine, cosine, secant, cosecant, tangent, cotangent, progression, parabola, hyperbola, ellipse, theorem, hypothesis, algorithm, logarithm, log, vector, dividend, quotient, sum, difference, product.
Converse of object
- apply: We use ideas and tools from the broad fields of fluid mechanics, physics and applied mathematics.
- teach: After two years in the army he returned to the military academy to teach mathematics.
- learn: Examining the effects of different multiple representational systems in learning primary mathematics.
- invent: Humans invent abstract mathematics, basically making it up out of their imaginations, yet math magically turns out to describe the world.
- study: Gilles Roberval began to study mathematics at the age of 14 years.
Adjective modifier
- applied: Nonlinear analysis has surely contributed major developments which nowadays shape the face of applied mathematics.
- discrete: A basic grounding in discrete mathematics will assumed during the lectures on security.
- pure: The content consists of a number of strands of pure mathematics with associated applications.
- elementary: Tutorial support for the elementary mathematics needed for this module will be provided for those who require it.
- computational: This Symposium is in honor of Professor Mike Osborne's ubiquitous contributions to diverse areas of computational mathematics including ( but not limited to!
- nonlinear: However Prof Van Vleck also has interests in other areas of nonlinear mathematics, particularly shadowing.
Modifies a noun
- educator: Their reactions shed light on significant issues of the period; especially strained relations within the hierarchy of mathematics educators.
- classroom: Much use is made of ICT in our teaching and each mathematics classroom is equipped with a PC and an interactive whiteboard.
- curriculum: Many respondents believe the current mathematics curriculum at Key Stage 4 to be overloaded.
- education: How can history of mathematics be useful for the mathematics education researcher?
- teacher: Rice, Adrian, 'What makes a great mathematics teacher?
- lesson: Student texts were shaped, in the case of the mathematics lesson.
Noun used with modifier
- A-level: Many identify the problem as the splitting of the subject matter of A-level mathematics into six separately examined modules.
- engineering: These include complete sets of curriculum material for various college and university level courses, including calculus, linear algebra and engineering mathematics.
- teaching: Technology & teaching mathematics The calculator has had a big impact on the way children learn about numbers.
All science requires mathematicsthe knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in usthis is the easiest of sciences. A fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it. For laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.
Entre le pe¤ nis et les mathe¤ matiquesil n'existe rien. Rien! Between the penis and mathematicsthere's nothing. Nothing!
All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.
[There is] a delusion that macro-economics is both viableanduseful (a delusionencouraged by its extensive use of mathematics, which must always impress politicians lacking any mathematical education, and which is really the nearest thing to the practice of magic that occurs among professional economists).
As faras the laws of mathematics refer to reality, theyare not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.
Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.
EDUCATION.öAt Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge inYorkshire.Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, providedwith all necessaries, instructed inall languages, living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.
Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beautyöa beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Let no one ignorant of mathematics enter here.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarizeonly be sure always to call it please 'research'.
Beauty isthe first test: there isno permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
Vanite¤ desVanite¤ s;Vanite¤ de la ge¤ ome¤ trie. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of mathematics!
There are two ways to teach mathematics.One is to take real pains toward creating understandingövisual aids, that sort of thing. The other is the old British style of teaching until you're blue in the face.
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