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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.
It is not to be confused with the fictional "mathematics" of the equally fictional Gnomon algorithm.
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Fiction cross-references
- Axiom Antics
- Crimes against mathematical constants
- Gnomon Algorithm
- Pi disaster
- Mathematician
- Mathematics
- Poem
- Three is the Color of My True Love's Hair (analysis)
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Algebraic geometry (nonfiction)
- Algorithm (nonfiction)
- Cellular automaton (nonfiction)
- Computation (nonfiction)
- Equation (nonfiction)
- Fractal (nonfiction)
- Differential equation (nonfiction)
- Geometry (nonfiction)
- Gnomon (nonfiction)
- Inverse problem (nonfiction)
- Killed process (nonfiction)
- Logic (nonfiction)
- Mandelbrot set (nonfiction)
- Mathematical beauty (nonfiction)
- Mathematician (nonfiction)
- Metamathematics (nonfiction)
- Number (nonfiction)
- Outsider mathematician (nonfiction)
- Pi (nonfiction)
- Positional notation (nonfiction)
- Prenex normal form (nonfiction)
- Proof theory (nonfiction)
- QED manifesto (nonfiction)
- Turing machine (nonfiction)
- Witch of Agnesi (nonfiction)
By category:
- Category:Mathematicians_(nonfiction) Mathematicians (nonfiction)
- Category:Mathematics_(nonfiction) Mathematics (nonfiction)
External links:
- Mathematics @ Wikipedia
- To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics
- My Favorite Theorem
- A Printable List of Mathematical Fiction
- Mathematical imagery by Jos Leys
- Did Math Kill God?
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