MATHEMATICS: January 2016

MATHEMATICS

Mathematics is the study of topics such as quantity(numbers),

structure,space and change.There is a range of views among

mathematiciansand philosophers as to the exact scope and

definition of mathematics.

Mathematics seeks out patterns and use them

to formulate new conjectures. Mathematics resolves the truth or

falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. Through the use of

abstaction and logic, mathematics developed from counting,

calculation, measurement and the systematic study of the shapes

and the motion og physical objects.

Aristotle defined mathematics as " the science of

quantity" , and this definition prevailed until the 18th century. Starting

in the 19th century when the study of mathematics increased in rigor

and began to adress abstract topic such as group theory and projective

geometry, which have no clear - cut realationto quantity and measurement.

Mathematiciand and philosophers began to propose a variety of new

definitions.

Guass referred mathematics as "queen of sciences".

Mathematics is in the sence filed of knowledge.

THE BRANCHES OF MATHEMATICS