mathematics

Senso

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.

Pronunciato come (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.

Frasi

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

Il paradosso è stato anche una motivazione dello sviluppo della matematica predicativa.

Kravchuk held a mathematics chair at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .

Kravchuk ha tenuto una sedia di matematica presso il Kiev Polytechnic Institute.