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An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts.

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A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.

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My mathematics is always improving.

You will be glad to hear that I enjoy Mathematics now.

With this was included mathematics, astronomy and astrology, and even the magic arts.

Of more general interest, however, are his labours in pure mathematics, which appear for the most part in Crelle's Journal from 1828 to 1858.

Each problem was something unique; the elements of transition from one to another were wanting; and the next step which mathematics had to make was to find some method of reducing, for instance, all curves to a common notation.

He divides geography into The Spherical Part, or that for the study of which mathematics alone is required, and The Topical Part, or the description of the physical relations of parts of the earth's surface, preferring this division to that favoured by the ancient geographers - into general and special.

The former was professor of mathematics at Bologna, and published, among other works, a treatise on the infinitesimal calculus.

His knowledge of the higher mathematics was acquired by his own unaided efforts after he had left the college.

After taking his degree he wavered between classics and mathematics, but finally chose the latter.

At Leipzig, Göttingen and Halle he studied for four years, ultimately devoting himself to mathematics and astronomy.

Scarcely any member of the Arabian circle of the sciences, including theology, philology, mathematics, astronomy, physics and music, was left untouched by the treatises of Avicenna, many of which probably varied little, except in being commissioned by a different patron and having a different form or extent.

Not until the age of seventeen did he attack the higher mathematics, and his progress was much retarded by the want of efficient help. When about sixteen years of age he became assistant-master in a private school at Doncaster, and he maintained himself to the end of his life in one grade or other of the scholastic profession.

Higher education is represented by the provincial university, which teaches science and mathematics, holds examinations, distributes scholarships, and grants degrees in all subjects.

As I have said before, I had no aptitude for mathematics; the different points were not explained to me as fully as I wished.

He began life as a clerk, but, obtaining an appointment to a cadetship at West Point in 1825, he graduated there in 1829, and acted as assistant professor of mathematics 1829-1832.

He was then called to the bar, but in 1836 became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cincinnati College.

His taste for mathematics early developed itself; and he acquired Latin that he might study Newton's Principia.

He was offered, but declined, the professorship of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard.

Roger Bacon, his pupil, speaks highly of his attainments in theology and mathematics.

He was then appointed to the ordinary chair of mathematics successively at Basel (1863), Tubingen (1865) and Leipzig (1868).

Notwithstanding Cournot's just reputation as a writer on mathematics, the Recherches made little impression.

In mathematics he was twenty-fourth wrangler, Isaac Todhunter being senior.

Though he never became either a scholar or a mathematician, he did enough accurate work to be placed in the honorary fourth class both in classics and in mathematics.

This view involves the denial of force as a cause, and the assertion that all we know about force is that the acceleration of one mass depends on that of another, as in mathematics a function depends on a variable; and that even Newton's third law of motion is merely a description of the fact that two material points determine in one another, without reciprocally causing, opposite accelerations.

This being so, he finds in mathematics two kinds of transcendence - real, where the transcendent, though not actual in experience, can become partly so, e.g.

Might not mathematics be a purely imaginary science?

Chinese mathematics was, like their language, very concise.

Rice, Adrian, 'What makes a great mathematics teacher?

The Singapore math method features a unique approach to mathematics.

Neither mathematics itself, nor any branch or set of branches of mathematics, can be regarded as an isolated science.

As to the teaching of algebra, see references under Arithmetic to works on the teaching of elementary mathematics.

The Romans, who succeeded the Greeks as the chief civilized power in Europe, failed to set store on their literary and scientific treasures; mathematics was all but neglected; and beyond a few improvements in arithmetical computations, there are no material advances to be recorded.

The fame of this astronomer and mathematician rests on his work, the Aryabhattiyam, the third chapter of which is devoted to mathematics.

It is of great interest to the historical student, for it exhibits the influence of Greek science upon Indian mathematics at a period prior to Aryabhatta.

Moritz Cantor has suggested that at one time there existed two schools, one in sympathy with the Greeks, the other with the Hindus; and that, although the writings of the latter were first studied, they were rapidly discarded for the more perspicuous Grecian methods, so that, among the later Arabian writers, the Indian methods were practically forgotten and their mathematics became essentially Greek in character.

Mathematics was more or less ousted from the academic curricula by the philosophical inquiries of the schoolmen, and it was only after an interval of nearly three centuries that a worthy successor to Leonardo appeared.

In it he mentions many earlier writers from whom he had learnt the science, and although it contains very little that cannot be found in Leonardo's work, yet it is especially noteworthy for the systematic employment of symbols, and the manner in which it reflects the state of mathematics in Europe during this period.

These works are the earliest printed books on mathematics.

The renaissance of mathematics was thus effected in Italy, and it is to that country that the leading developments of the following century were due.

The 17th century is a famous epoch in the progress of science, and the mathematics in no way lagged behind.

Notable service was also rendered by Augustus de Morgan, who applied logical analysis to the laws of mathematics.

He devoted his youth to the study of history, chronology, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and medicine.

Other works of his, chiefly on mathematics and astronomy, are still in manuscript only.

Born on the 15th of February 1514, he studied at Tiguri with Oswald Mycone, and afterwards went to Wittenberg where he was appointed professor of mathematics in 1537.

He projected numerous other works, as is shown by a letter to Peter Ramus in 1568, which Adrian Romanus inserted in the preface to his Idea of Mathematics.

Borrell entrusted him to the care of a Bishop Hatto, under whose instruction Gerbert made great progress in mathematics.

He soon distinguished himself as a student and made rapid progress, especially in mathematics.

As a politician Fourier achieved uncommon success, but his fame chiefly rests on his strikingly original contributions to science and mathematics.

Here Jacques Davy received his education, being taught Latin and mathematics by his father, and learning Greek and Hebrew and the philosophy then in vogue.

As a foundation his education must be thorough in the natural and physical sciences and mathematics.

These miners' schools (Bergschule, ecoles des mineurs) give elementary instruction in chemistry, physics, mechanics, mineralogy, geology and mathematics and drawing, as well as in such details of the art of mining as will best supplement the practical information already acquired in underground work.