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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