mathematics

Betekenis

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.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/mæθ(ə)ˈmætɪks/

Etymologie

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.

Zinnen

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

De paradox was ook een motivatie van de ontwikkeling van predicatieve wiskunde.

Kravchuk held a mathematics chair at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .

Kravchuk hield een wiskundestoel bij het Kiev Polytechnic Institute.