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"Mathematics is the
academic discipline, and its supporting body of
knowledge, that involves the study of such concepts as
quantity,
structure,
space and
change. The mathematician
Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws necessary
conclusions"...Other practitioners of mathematics maintain that
mathematics is the science of
pattern,
and that
mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in
numbers,
space,
science,
computers, imaginary abstractions,
or elsewhere...Mathematicians
explore such concepts, aiming |to formulate new
conjectures and establish their truth
by
rigorous
deduction from appropriately chosen
axioms
and
definitions"
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