Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of quantity; the study of ideal constructions (often applicable to real problems), and the discovery thereby of relations between the parts of these constructions, before unknown. The observations being upon objects of imagination merely, the discoveries of mathematics are susceptible of being rendered quite certain. The first considerable advances in mathematics were made by the Greeks, whose greatest geometers, Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius, flourished in or about the third century b. c. After their time not very much progress was made until the seventeenth century, but since then the progress of discovery has been continuous. See absolute, algebra, arithmetic, equation, function, geometry, group, infinite, infinitesimal, number, problem, quantity, space, theorem, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure and change and the relationships between these concepts.
- n. A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
Etymologies
- From Latin mathēmatica ("mathematics"), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathematikos, "fond of learning"), from μάθημα (máthema, "knowledge, study, learning"). (Wiktionary)
- From Middle English mathematik, from Old French mathematique, from Latin mathēmatica, from Greek mathēmatikē (tekhnē), mathematical (science), feminine of mathēmatikos, mathematical; see mathematical. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A reflection of their fundamental philosophy, the Pythagoreans invented the term mathematics, from the Greek word mathema, which meant “science.””
“Considered a child prodigy, he went to Harvard and graduated, then he got his PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan.”
“Education: Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Delhi and an MBA in marketing and finance from the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.”
“Regarding an underlying mathematical edifice, a possible analogy in mathematics is the existence of non-computable numbers, these numbers have no deterministic, no algorithmic description, yet they exist.”
“Only a philosophical topology, analogous to what in mathematics is defined as analysis situ (analysis of site), in opposition to analysis magnitudinis”
“The question asked which branch of mathematics comes from the Greek word for reunite.”
“We compose our systems of music, which we call mathematics, that are model systems of internal consistency.”
“Society, who, accepting Bacon's demand for certainty and not finding it in the hypothetical physics, empha - sized the necessity for a more Archimedean approach: what they called mathematics and what today might be termed mathematical physics.”
“Things which may at first sight appear comparatively valueless in education -- such as the study of the dead languages, and the relations of lines and surfaces which we call mathematics -- are really of the greatest practical value, not so much because of the information which they yield, as because of the development which they compel.”
“I will now explain my meaning by literal examples, leaving aside all purely abstract reasoning, which I call the mathematics of thought.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mathematics’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 346 more...
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
surface, administration, project, motion, machine, medical, vision, solid, shape, scheme, income, proceed and 205 more...
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
fjord, mistral steppe, tornado, tsunami, polder, kiwi, koala, sequoia, Abominable Snowman, paprika, spaghetti, empanada and 299 more...
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-ics
art; science; activities
mathematics, statistics, physics, linguistics, electronics, narcotics, orthodontics, orthopedics, cryogenics, bionics, semiotics
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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james_liman's list
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
List? What list?
This is the list that makes up the world.cat, boustrophedon, syndetic, life, imbroglio, interlude, composition, investigation, cantankerous, him, sign, universality and 189 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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Greek Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lethargy, biopsy, enthusiasm, odyssey, synonym, calypso, character, eclectic, chronology, cosmetic, cynical, hypothesis and 128 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mathematics.
Louises A person steps into the road, turns, sees a truck about to hit him, seems to freeze. The freezing is the amazingly quick brain making its honourable start on the avoidance mathematics, the geometry of getting out of the way. And even the amazingly quick brain is too slow. The first trajectory calculations are barely - BAM! Goodnight. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 23, 2012
PossibleUnderscore "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. 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 poetry."
-Bertrand Russell
Yes. Yes indeed.
Apr 24, 2010
oroboros 9 × 9 + 7 = 88
98 × 9 + 6 = 888
987 × 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 × 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 × 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 × 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 × 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 × 9 + 0 = 888888888
987654321 x 9 - 1 = 8888888888
--From: Futility Closet
(BTW, 80/81 = .987654321 with rounding) Jul 14, 2008