Mathematics ˌmæθəˈmætɪks Noun School Curriculum Applied/Pure Worked Difficult

• the school mathematics curriculum
• applied/pure mathematics
• he worked out the very difficult mathematics in great detail.
• her proof is a remarkable piece of mathematics.

mathematics

1. the science of numbers and shapes. Branches of mathematics include arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
• the school mathematics curriculum
• applied/pure mathematics

Extra Examples

• Both science and mathematics show us that the universe has not been around for an infinite duration of time.
• Galileo was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Padua.
• There is a whole field of applied mathematics which is eminently practical.
• Astronomy in this mould becomes a branch of pure mathematics.
2. the process of calculating using numbers
• He worked out the very difficult mathematics in great detail.
• Her proof is a remarkable piece of mathematics.

Word Origin

• late 16th cent.: plural of obsolete mathematic ‘mathematics’, from Old French mathematique, from Latin (ars) mathematica ‘mathematical (art)’, from Greek mathēmatikē (tekhnē), from the base of manthanein ‘learn’.