mathematics
nounEtymology
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.
- derived from μαθηματικός
- derived from mathēmatica
- derived from mathematique
- inherited from mathematique
Definitions
An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative…
An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
- Next to Mathematics, the study of natural philosophy tends to have anti-aphrodisiac effects.
- The answer is 'yes', and the mathematics needed is the theory of probability and its applied cousin, statistics.
A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at…
A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
- My mathematics is always improving.
The neighborhood
- synonymmaths
- synonymmath
- synonymmathematics
- neighbormathematical
- neighbormathematically
- neighbormathematician
- neighbormathematicist
- neighborpolymath
- neighborset
- neighborrelation
- neighborfunction
- neighboroperation
- neighbormapping
- neighbordefinition
- neighboraxiom
Derived
applied mathematics, astromathematics, biomathematics, discrete mathematics, ethnomathematics, fuzzy mathematics, geomathematics, iatromathematics, math, mathematese, mathlete, maths, metamathematics, physicomathematics, pseudomathematics, pure mathematics, recreational mathematics, reform mathematics, reverse mathematics
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at mathematics. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at mathematics. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at mathematics
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