mathematics

Significat

1. An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
2. A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/mæθ(ə)ˈmætɪks/

Etimologia

1580s; From mathematic (noun) + -ics, from Middle English mathematique, methametik, matematik, matamatik, from Old French mathematique, from Latin mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “on the matter of that which is learned”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”). Displaced native Old English rīmcræft.

Sents

The paradox was also a motivation of the development of predicative mathematics .

Kravchuk held a mathematics chair at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .