mathematics

alternative obsolete mathematicks

1. uncountableAn abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.

   Next to Mathematics, the study of natural philosophy tends to have anti-aphrodisiac effects.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 163

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   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.

   1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker

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

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

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

   My mathematics is always improving.

   Synonyms: numeracy