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Other languages: Bosnian Dansk Deutsch Esperanto ... Svenska Mathematics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mathematics (from Greek mathema mathematikos ]: fond of learning) is the study of patterns of quantity, structure, change and space. In the modern view, it is the investigation of axiomatically defined abstract structures using formal logic as the common framework. The specific structures investigated often have their origin in the natural sciences , most commonly in physics , but mathematicians also define and investigate structures for reasons purely internal to mathematics, for instance because they realize that the structure provides a unifying generalization for several subfields or a helpful tool in common calculations. Finally, many mathematicians study in the areas that they do for aesthetic reasons - simply because they find the structures they investigate beautiful in and of themselves. Historically, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to do calculations in commerce, to measure land and to predict astronomical events. These three needs can be roughly related to the broad subdivision of mathematics into the study of structure, space and change. | |
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