Definition of Mathematics

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Mathematics

That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.

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Mathematics Quotations

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides

Mathematics Translations

mathematics in Afrikaans is wiskunde
mathematics in Dutch is wiskunde, mathematica
mathematics in German is Mathematik, mathematische
mathematics in Hungarian is matematika
mathematics in Italian is matematica
mathematics in Swedish is matematik

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