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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. There is debate over whether mathematical objects such as numbers and points exist naturally or are human creations. The mathematician Benjamin Peirce called mathematics "the science that draws necessary conclusions". Albert Einstein, on the other hand, stated that "as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, mathematics evolved from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written records exist. Rigorous arguments first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid's Elements. Mathematics continued to develop, for example in China in 300 BC, in India in AD 100, and in the Muslim world in AD 800, until the Renaissance, when mathematical innovations interacting with new scientific discoveries led to a rapid increase in the rate of mathematical discovery that continues to the present day. Mathematics is used throughout the world as an essential tool in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. Applied mathematics, the branch of mathematics concerned with application of mathematical knowledge to other fields, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and sometimes leads to the development of entirely new mathematical disciplines, such as statistics and game theory. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics, or mathematics for its own sake, without having any application in mind, although practical applications for what began as pure mathematics are often discovered. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I really know nothing of the history of mathematics, and I have learn as much as I can about it in a week for a competition. I don't really have time to get a book from a library. The competition is multiple choice, so is it probably going to be questions involving names, dates, and what people did. I don't know what specifically it is on. Is there a resource that gives a concise history while telling a lot that I can learn in a week about math history? Asked by lord_erico - Thu Apr 10 19:59:32 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. as always, wiki is a nice source for some of these things. I would start with searching algebra, geometry, calculus, etc. then once you get a feel for who invented each then search names like Euler, Gauss, Newton, Leibniz, Galois, Pascal, Cauchy, Liouville, etc. just to name a few of the big ones. even Aristotle is important here because the Greeks wrote the book on geometry (in many ways). This is a quick fix but I know there are classes offered on history of mathematics and, therefore, texts available out there. In your predicament i would utilize some online resources and hope for an easy test :-/ Answered by Cursing Monk - Thu Apr 10 20:07:41 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "mathematics" MathematicsFrom Wikiquote Jump to: navigation, search Number rules the universe. ~ PythagorasMathematics is the body of knowledge centered on concepts such as quantity, structure, space, and change, and the academic discipline which studies them. It evolved, through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, from counting, calculation, measurement, and the study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. ContentsFrom Wikiquote under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
