2007-01-23 01:02:40 · 6 answers · asked by ABI 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
There are many reasons why we study math:
2007-01-23 01:08:46 · answer #1 · answered by fcas80 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mathematics (colloquially, maths, or math in North American English) is the body of knowledge centered on concepts such as quantity, structure, space, and change, and also the academic discipline that studies them. Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions". Steen and Devlin have argued that mathematics is the science of pattern and that mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, science, computers, or in imaginary abstractions.
Through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, mathematics evolved from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.
Knowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life. Refinements of the basic ideas are visible in mathematical texts originating in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient India, ancient China, and ancient Greece. Rigorous arguments first appear in Euclid's Elements. The development continued in fitful bursts until the Renaissance period of the 16th century, when mathematical innovations interacted with new scientific discoveries, leading to an acceleration in research that continues to the present day.
Today, mathematics is used throughout the world in many fields, including science, engineering, medicine and economics. The application of mathematics to such fields, often dubbed applied mathematics, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and sometimes leads to the development of entirely new disciplines. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics, or mathemathics for its own sake, without having any application in mind, although applications for what began as pure mathematics are often discovered later.
2007-01-23 01:11:15 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maths is the 'Queen of Science'.
Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space and change. It developed, through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, from counting, calculation, measurement, and the study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Without maths there is no physics,chemistry.
2007-01-23 02:01:57 · answer #3 · answered by Pinky 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
B Brackets first
O Orders (ie Powers and Square Roots, etc.)
DM Division and Multiplication (left-to-right)
AS Addition and Subtraction (left-to-right)
this is the order you follow when solving long math problems.
you do the problem inside the brackets first, then square roots, etc, then division problem, mult problem next, then adding, then subtraction problelm.
2007-01-23 01:11:16 · answer #4 · answered by soooo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why Study Math
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2007-01-23 02:39:37 · answer #5 · answered by SAMUEL D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
math has got a very wide range! what do you want to know?
2007-01-23 01:09:14 · answer #6 · answered by pigley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋