mathematics

English

Alternative forms

• mathematicks (obsolete)

Etymology

From Стари Француски mathematique, from Латински mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Антички Грчки μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “fond of learning”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”).

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /mæθ(ə)ˈmætɪks/

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Noun

mathematics (uncountable)

1. An abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure, change and the relationships between these concepts.
   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":

     Looking at the Leibniz series, you feel the independence of mathematics from human culture. Surely, on any world that knows pi the Leibniz series will also be known... Nilakantha, an astronomer, grammarian, and mathematician who lived on the Kerala coast of India, described the formula in Sanskrit poetry around the year 1500.

   • 2002, Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos, page 38

     The answer is 'yes', and the mathematics needed is the theory of probability and its applied cousin, statistics.

2. A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.

   My mathematics is always improving.

Usage notes

• Mathematics was previously seen as a plural, but this usage is obsolete.
  • "… Artificers, to whom the Practical Mathematics are of great and immediate Uſe." A System of Practical Mathematics - John Potter, 1753
  • "Mathematics are based on arithmatic^[sic], algebra and geometry, and are either pure or mixed." - The teacher's assistant in the "Course of mathematics adapted to the method of instruction in the American colleges - Jeremiah Day, 1836
  • "Now the mathematics are peculiarly well adapted for this purpose, … " - Library of Useful Knowledge - Mathematics - Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1836
  • "Mathematics are also distinguished into Theoretical, or Speculative, and Practical, …" A new and easy Introduction to the Mathematics - Ira Wanzer, 1831

Synonyms

• (ability to use mathematics): numeracy
• abbreviation: maths (UK, Australia), math (US, Canada)
• See also Тезаурус:mathematics

Derived terms

Изведени термини

• applied mathematics
• astromathematics
• biomathematics
• discrete mathematics
• ethnomathematics

• metamathematics
• pseudomathematics
• pure mathematics
• recreational mathematics

Related terms

• mathematical
• mathematically
• mathematician

Descendants

• → Велшки: mathemateg

Translations

field of study

• Afrikaans: wiskunde (af)
• Alabama: holtina
• Albanian: matematikë (sq) f
• Alemannic German: mathematik
• Amharic: ትምህርተ ሂሳብ (təmhrtä hisab)
• Arabic: رِيَاضَة‎ f (riyāḍa), رِيَاضِيَّات‎ (ar) pl (riyāḍiyyāt)
• Aragonese: matematicas
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܢܝܘܬܐ‎ f (mannāyūṯāʾ)

• Armenian: մաթեմատիկա (hy) (matʿematika)
• Aromanian: mathematicã
• Assamese: গণিত (gonit), অংক (oṅko)
• Asturian: matemátiques
• Aymara: jakhu (ay)
• Azerbaijani: riyaziyyat (az)
• Banyumasan: matematika
• Bashkir: математика (matematika)
• Basque: matematika (eu)
• Bavarian: mathematik
• Belarusian: матэма́тыка f (matemátyka)
• Bengali: গণিত (bn) (gônit)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: গণিত (gaṇit)
• Breton: matematikoù
• Buginese: matematika
• Bulgarian: матема́тика (bg) f (matemátika)
• Burmese: သင်္ချာ (my) (sanghkya)
• Catalan: matemàtiques (ca) f pl, matemàtica (ca) f sg
• Cebuano: matematika
• Chamorro: matematika
• Chechen: Шаблон:t-needed
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 數學 (zh-yue), 数学 (zh-yue) (sou³ hok⁶)

  Hakka: 數學, 数学 (sṳ-ho̍k)

  Mandarin: 數學 (zh), 数学 (zh) (shùxué), 算學 (zh), 算学 (zh) (suànxué) (ancient)

  Min Nan: 數學 (zh-min-nan), 数学 (sò͘-ha̍k)

• Chuvash: математика (matematika)
• Cornish: awgrym m, mathematik m
• Corsican: matematica (co)
• Crimean Tatar: riyaziyat
• Czech: matematika (cs) f
• Danish: matematik (da) c
• Dhivehi: ރިޔާޟިއްޔާތު‎ (riyāḋiyātu)
• Dinka: akuënkäŋ
• Dutch: wiskunde (nl) f, mathematiek (nl) (rare), mathematica (nl) (rare), mathesis (nl) (rare)
• Dutch Low Saxon: wiskunde
• Erzya: математика (matematika)
• Esperanto: matematiko (eo)
• Estonian: matemaatika (et)
• Extremaduran: matemáticas
• Faroese: støddfrøði f
• Finnish: matematiikka (fi)
• French: mathématiques (fr) f pl
• Friulian: matematiche
• Galician: matemáticas (gl) f pl
• Georgian: მათემატიკა (ka) (matemaṭiḳa)
• German: Mathematik (de) f
• Greek: μαθηματικά (el) n pl (mathimatiká)

  Ancient: μαθηματική f (mathēmatikḗ)

• Greenlandic: matematikki
• Gujarati: ગણિત (gu) (gaṇit)
• Haitian Creole: matematik
• Hausa: lissafi (ha)
• Hawaiian: makemakika
• Hebrew: מָתֵמָטִיקָה‎ (he) (matemátika)
• Hindi: गणित (hi) m (gaṇit), गणित-विधा f (gaṇit-vidhā)
• Hungarian: matematika (hu)
• Icelandic: stærðfræði (is) f
• Ido: matematiko (io)
• Indonesian: matematika (id)
• Interlingua: mathematica (ia)
• Interlingue: matematica
• Irish: matamaitic
• Italian: matematica (it) f
• Japanese: 数学 (ja) (sūgaku)
• Javanese: matématika
• Kannada: ಗಣಿತ (kn) (gaṇita)
• Kashmiri: علم ریاضی‎
• Kashubian: matematika
• Kazakh: математика (kk) (matematïka)
• Khmer: គណិតវិទ្យា (km) (kɔɔnətvɨtyiə), គណិតសាស្ត្រ (km) (kɔɔnətsaahtrɑɑ)
• Komi-Permyak: Шаблон:t-needed
• Korean: 수학 (ko) (suhak)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: matematîk (ku) f, jimarnasî (ku) f, bîrkarî (ku) f, jimêryarî (ku) f, hesab (ku) f

  Sorani: ,

• Kyrgyz: математика (ky) (matematika)
• Ladino: matematika
• Lao: ຄະນິດສາດ (lo) (kha nit sāt)
• Latin: mathēmatica (la) f
• Latvian: matemātika f

• Ligurian: matematica
• Limburgish: mathematik
• Lithuanian: matematika (lt) f
• Lombard: matemàtega
• Low German: mathematik
• Lower Sorbian: matematika
• Luxembourgish: Mathematik
• Macedonian: математика f (matematika)
• Malay: matematik (ms), ilmu hisab
• Malayalam: ഗണിതം (ml) (gaṇitaṃ)
• Maltese: matematika f
• Manx: maddaght
• Maori: pāngarau
• Marathi: गणित (mr) (gaṇit)
• Middle English: mathematic
• Mongolian: математик (mn) (matematik)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⵓⵙⵏⴰⴽⵜ f (tusnakt)
• Navajo: ałhiiʼnínáʼiidzóóh, ałhííʼnaʼííltaʼ
• Neapolitan: matemàteca
• Nepali: गणित (ne) (gaṇita)
• Norman: caltchul
• Northern Sami: matematihkka
• Norwegian: matematikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: matematikk

• Novial: matematike
• Occitan: matematicas
• Old English: rīmcræft
• Old French: mathematique
• Ossetian: Шаблон:t-needed
• Pangasinan: matematiks
• Papiamentu: matemátika
• Pashto: شمېرپوهنه‎ f (šmerpohëna)
• Persian: ریاضیات‎ (fa) (riyâziyât) انگارش‎ (fa) (engâreš)
• Piedmontese: matemàtica
• Polish: matematyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: matemática (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਗਣਿਤ (gaṇit)
• Quechua: yupay yachay
• Romanian: matematică (ro) f
• Romansch: matematica f
• Russian: матема́тика (ru) f (matemátika)
• Samoan: matematika (sm)
• Samogitian: matematėka
• Sanskrit: गणित (sa) n (gaṇita)
• Sardinian: matemàtica
• Scots: mathematics
• Scottish Gaelic: matamataig
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: математика f

  Roman: matematika (sh) f

• Sicilian: matimàtica (scn)
• Silesian: matymatyka
• Sinhalese: ගණිතය (gaṇitaya)
• Slovak: matematika f, počty m pl
• Slovene: matematika (sl)
• Somali: xisaab
• Spanish: matemáticas (es) f pl, matemática (es) f
• Sundanese: matematika
• Swahili: hisabati (sw)
• Swedish: matematik (sv) c
• Tagalog: matematika (tl), sipnayan (tl)
• Tajik: математика (tg) (matematika), риёзиёт (tg) (riyoziyot)
• Tamil: கணிதம் (ta) (kaṇitam)
• Tatar: Шаблон:t-needed
• Telugu: గణితం (te) (gaṇitaṃ), లెక్కలు (te) (lekkalu)
• Tetum: matemátika
• Thai: คณิตศาสตร์ (th)
• Tibetan: ཨང་རྩིས (ang rtsis)
• Turkish: matematik (tr)
• Turkmen: matematika
• Tuvan: Шаблон:t-needed
• Ukrainian: матема́тика (uk) f (matemátyka)
• Upper Sorbian: myrowc
• Urdu: ریاضی‎ f (riyāzī), گنت‎ m (ganit)
• Uyghur: ماتېماتىكا‎ (matëmatika)
• Uzbek: matematika (uz)
• Venetian: matemàtega
• Vietnamese: toán học (vi)
• Volapük: matemat (vo)
• Võro: matõmaatiga
• Walloon: matematikes (wa) f pl
• Waray-Waray: matematika
• Welsh: mathemateg (cy)
• West Frisian: wiskunde
• Western Panjabi: میتھمیٹکس‎
• Wolof: xayma (wo)
• Yakut: математика (matematika)
• Yiddish: מאַטעמאַטיק‎ f (matematik)
• Yoruba: mathematiki
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) matematik

person's ability to use mathematics

• Dutch: rekenvaardigheid f, wiskunde (nl) f
• Greek: μαθηματικά (el) n pl (mathimatiká)
• Hausa: lissafi (ha)
• Italian: matematica (it) f
• Khmer: គណិត (kak nit)
• Kurdish: matematîk (ku) f, jimarnasî (ku) f, bîrkarî (ku) f, jimêryarî (ku) f, hesab (ku) f

• Maltese: matematiku m
• Serbo-Croatian: matematika (sh) f
• Slovak: matematik m
• Swedish: matematik (sv) c
• Turkish: matematik (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Emiliano-Romagnolo: matemâtica

See also

• mathematics на Википедији.Википедији
• Definitions of mathematics на Википедији.Википедији
• polymath

Further reading

• PlanetMath.Org Encyclopedia
• Mathematics using gifs
• Mathworld Encyclopedia