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
- Foundations
- Algebra
- Arithmetic
- Analysis
- Geometry
- Applied mathematics
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