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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses
its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen,
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind" .
Leonardo Da Vinci
"Mathematics is the study
of
quantity,
structure,
space, and
change.
Mathematicians seek out
patterns,formulate new
conjectures, and establish truth by
rigorous
deduction from appropriately chosen
axioms and
definitions.
There is debate over whether
mathematical objects such as
numbers and points exist naturally
or are human creations. The
mathematician
Benjamin Peirce called mathematics
"the science that draws necessary
conclusions".
Albert Einstein, on the other hand,
stated that "as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Through the use of
abstraction and
logical
reasoning, mathematics evolved from
counting,
calculation,
measurement, and the systematic
study of the
shapes and
motions of physical objects.
Practical mathematics has been a human
activity for as far back as
written records exist.
Rigorous arguments first appeared in
Greek mathematics, most notably in
Euclid's
Elements. Mathematics continued
to develop, for example in China in 300
BC, in India in AD 100, and in the
Muslim world in AD 800, until the
Renaissance, when mathematical
innovations interacting with new
scientific discoveries led to a
rapid increase in the rate of
mathematical discovery that continues to
the present day.
Mathematics is used throughout the world
as an essential tool in many fields,
including
natural science,
engineering,
medicine, and the
social sciences.
Applied mathematics, the branch of
mathematics concerned with application
of mathematical knowledge to other
fields, inspires and makes use of new
mathematical discoveries and sometimes
leads to the development of entirely new
mathematical disciplines, such as
statistics and
game theory. Mathematicians also
engage in
pure mathematics, or mathematics for
its own sake, without having any
application in mind, although practical
applications for what began as pure
mathematics are often discovered."
Source:
Wikipedia
"Mathematics is the study
of