Nature Of Mathematics Flashcards
Helps us to have analytical thinking.
Math
Develops the ability to investigate and know the truth about the world around us.
Analytical thinking
Who uses math?
- Mathematicians
- Scientists
- Everyone
What is mathematics all about?
Numbers, symbols, equations, operations, functions, calculations, abstractions, devising proofs
Why is mathematics important to learn?
•It puts order in disorder.
•It helps us become better persons.
•It helps make a world a better place to live in.
Who made this definition of mathematics?
The abstract science which investigates deductively the conclusions implicit in the elementary conceptions of spatial and numerical relations, and which includes as its main divisions geometry, arithmetic, and algebra.”
Oxford English Dictionary 1933
Who made this definition of mathematics?
The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and set, using numbers and symbols”
American Heritage Dictionary, 2000
Who made this definition of mathematics?
The science of structure, order, and relation that has evolved from elemental practices of counting, measuring, and describing the shapes of objects.”
Encyclopedia
How Mathematics was Defined by Mathematicians/Philosophers:
“The science of quantity.”
Aristotle
How Mathematics was Defined by Mathematicians/Philosophers
“The science of indirect measurement”
Auguste Comte’s (1851)
How Mathematics was Defined by Mathematicians/Philosophers
“The subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true”.
Bertrand Russell (1901)
How Mathematics was Defined by Mathematicians/Philosophers
“Mathematics is the indispensable instrument of all physical researches.
Immanuel Kant
How Mathematics was Defined by Mathematicians/Philosophers
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is queen of all mathematics”.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
How Mathematics was Defined by Mathematicians/Philosophers
“Mathematics is the gateway and key to all sciences”.
Francis Bacon
How Mathematics was Defined by Mathematicians/Philosophers
“Mathematics is the language of physical sciences and certainly no more marvelous language was created by the mind of man”.
Lindsay
