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[[File:Mayan_numerals.svg|thumb|Mayan numerals.]]'''Mathematics''' (from Greek μάθημα ''máthēma'', "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of topics such as numbers, structure, space, [[time]], motion, change, and [[measurement]]. | [[File:Mayan_numerals.svg|thumb|Mayan numerals.]]'''Mathematics''' (from Greek μάθημα ''máthēma'', "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of topics such as numbers, structure, space, [[time]], motion, change, and [[measurement]]. | ||
Mathematicians seek out patterns and use them to formulate new conjectures. | Mathematicians seek out patterns and use them to formulate new conjectures. | ||
Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. | Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. | ||
When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning can provide insight or predictions about nature. | When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning can provide insight or predictions about nature. | ||
There is a range of views among [[Mathematician (nonfiction)|mathematicians]] and philosophers as to the | |||
Practical mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written records exist. | |||
The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry. | |||
== Fiction cross-references == | |||
* [[Axiom Antics]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Algorithm]] | |||
* [[Pi disaster]] | |||
* [[Mathematician]] | |||
* [[Mathematics]] | |||
* [[Poem]] | |||
* [[Three is the Color of My True Love's Hair (nonfiction)]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
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* [[Prenex normal form (nonfiction)]] | * [[Prenex normal form (nonfiction)]] | ||
* [[Turing machine (nonfiction)]] | * [[Turing machine (nonfiction)]] | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 06:34, 10 June 2016
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of topics such as numbers, structure, space, time, motion, change, and measurement.
Mathematicians seek out patterns and use them to formulate new conjectures.
Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof.
When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning can provide insight or predictions about nature.
There is a range of views among mathematicians and philosophers as to the
Practical mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written records exist.
The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry.
Fiction cross-references
- Axiom Antics
- Gnomon Algorithm
- Pi disaster
- Mathematician
- Mathematics
- Poem
- Three is the Color of My True Love's Hair (nonfiction)
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Algorithm (nonfiction)
- Cellular automaton (nonfiction)
- Computation (nonfiction)
- Fractal (nonfiction)
- Geometry (nonfiction)
- Gnomon (nonfiction)
- Logic (nonfiction)
- Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)
- Mathematician (nonfiction)
- Number (nonfiction)
- Outsider mathematician (nonfiction)
- Pi (nonfiction)
- Prenex normal form (nonfiction)
- Turing machine (nonfiction)
External links
- Mathematics @ Wikipedia