Tuesday, 29 November 2016

MATHEMATICS(manveer kaur roo no 18)



MATHEMATICS
Mathematics is the study of numbers, quantity , space, structure and change. Mathematics  seek out patterns  and formulate new conjectures. Mathematics may be regarded as a symbolic language, whose practical function is to express quantitative and spatial relationship and whose theoretical function is to facilitate thinking and reasoning skills. It establishes the ideal form towards which all scientific knowledge ought to tend or perhaps because the concept formulated in very much essential for the development of other branches of science.
Mathematics explores such concepts coming to formulate and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.
Mathematics is of two type:
·        Pure mathematics
·        Applied mathematics
Pure mathematics deals with the theories and principles without regard to their application to concrete things where as applied mathematics is the practical side of pure mathematics.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) referred   to mathematics as “The queen of sciences”
     Galileo, “The universe is grand book which cannot be read until one first learns comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.”
According to Chamber’ s twentieth Century Dictionary (1970) “Mathematics is the science of magnitude and numbers and of all their relation”.
  According to Good’s Dictionary of Education (1991) “Mathematics is the science  of measurement , quantity and magnitude.”
Vinson (2001) and Vinson Haujnes and Sloan (1997) “Mathematics anxiety is far from disliking mathematics”.
Cambridge Advanced Learner Dictionary (2006), “Mathematics is the study of numbers , shapes and apace using reason  and usually  a special system of symbols and roles for organizing them.”


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