different between numbers vs mathematics
numbers
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?mb?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?mb?z/
- Hyphenation: num?bers
Noun
numbers
- plural of number
Noun
numbers pl (plural only)
- Many individuals as a group.
- Numbers of people have visited the fair.
Quotations
- 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 50
- Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents. Numbers would subdue even magic.
Verb
numbers
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of number
Anagrams
- numbres, renumbs
numbers From the web:
- what numbers are prime
- what numbers are composite
- what numbers are perfect squares
- what numbers are divisible by 3
- what numbers are recyclable
- what numbers are irrational
- what numbers are integers
- what numbers are odd
mathematics
English
Alternative forms
- mathematicks (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French mathematique, from Latin math?matica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (math?matikós, “on the matter of that which is learned”), from ?????? (máth?ma, “knowledge, study, learning”). Displaced native Old English r?mcræft.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mæ?(?)?mæt?ks/
Noun
mathematics (uncountable)
- An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":
- Looking at the Leibniz series, you feel the independence of mathematics from human culture. Surely, on any world that knows pi the Leibniz series will also be known... Nilakantha, an astronomer, grammarian, and mathematician who lived on the Kerala coast of India, described the formula in Sanskrit poetry around the year 1500.
- 2002, Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos, page 38
- The answer is 'yes', and the mathematics needed is the theory of probability and its applied cousin, statistics.
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":
- A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
- My mathematics is always improving.
Usage notes
- Mathematics was previously seen as a plural, but this usage is obsolete.
- "… Artificers, to whom the Practical Mathematics are of great and immediate U?e." A System of Practical Mathematics - John Potter, 1753
- "Mathematics are based on arithmatic[sic], algebra and geometry, and are either pure or mixed." - The teacher's assistant in the "Course of mathematics adapted to the method of instruction in the American colleges - Jeremiah Day, 1836
- "Now the mathematics are peculiarly well adapted for this purpose, … " - Library of Useful Knowledge - Mathematics - Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1836
- "Mathematics are also distinguished into Theoretical, or Speculative, and Practical, …" A new and easy Introduction to the Mathematics - Ira Wanzer, 1831
Synonyms
- (ability to use mathematics): numeracy
- abbreviation: maths (UK, Australia), math (US, Canada)
- See also Thesaurus:mathematics
Derived terms
Related terms
- mathematical
- mathematically
- mathematician
Descendants
- ? Welsh: mathemateg
Translations
See also
- mathematics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Definitions of mathematics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- polymath
Further reading
- PlanetMath.Org Encyclopedia
- Mathematics using gifs
- Mathworld Encyclopedia
mathematics From the web:
- what mathematics comes from ancient india
- what mathematics is used in economics
- what mathematics is needed for machine learning
- what mathematics is needed for computer science
- what mathematics is used in computer science
- what mathematics is for by ian stewart summary
- what mathematics is all about
- what mathematics concepts or principles
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