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Outline of Mathematics

Philosophy

Nature

:* Constructive mathematics asserts that it is necessary to find (or “construct”) a mathematical object to prove that it exists. In classical mathematics, one can prove the existence of a mathematical object without “finding” that object explicitly, by assuming its non-existence and then deriving a contradiction from that assumption. :* Predicative mathematics

Mathematics is

  • An academic discipline – branch of knowledge that is taught at all levels of education and researched typically at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties to which their practitioners belong.
  • A formal science – branch of knowledge concerned with the properties of formal systems based on definitions and rules of inference. Unlike other sciences, the formal sciences are not concerned with the validity of theories based on observations in the physical world.

Concepts

:* Equivalent definitions of mathematical structures

  • Abstraction

    the process of extracting the underlying structures, patterns or properties of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena.

{{anchor|Subjects}}Branches and subjects

Quantity

:*Elementary arithmetic is the part of arithmetic which deals with basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. :*Modular arithmetic :*Second-order arithmetic is a collection of axiomatic systems that formalize the natural numbers and their subsets. :*Peano axioms also known as the Dedekind–Peano axioms or the Peano postulates, are axioms for the natural numbers presented by the 19th century Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano. :*Floating-point arithmetic is arithmetic using formulaic representation of real numbers as an approximation to support a trade-off between range and precision.

:*List of types of numbers ::*Natural number, Integer, Rational number, Real number, Irrational number, Imaginary number, Complex number, Hypercomplex number, p-adic number ::*Negative number, Positive number, Parity (mathematics) ::*Prime number, Composite number ::*0, Zero, Infinitesimals :*List of numbers in various languages :*Numeral system, Unary numeral system, Numeral prefix, List of numeral systems, List of numeral system topics :*Counting, Number line, Numerical digit ::*Radix, Radix economy, Base (exponentiation), Table of bases :*Mathematical notation, Infix notation, Scientific notation, Positional notation, Notation in probability and statistics, History of mathematical notation, List of mathematical notation systems :*Infinity, Hyperreal numbers, Surreal numbers :*Fractions, Decimal, Decimal separator

:*Calculation, Computation, Expression (mathematics), Order of operations, Algorithm :*Types of Operations: Binary operation, Unary operation, Nullary operation :*Operands: Order of operations, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Exponentiation, Logarithm, Root ::*Function (mathematics), Inverse function ::*Commutative property, Anticommutative property, Associative property, Additive identity, Distributive property ::*Summation, Product (mathematics), Divisor, Quotient, Greatest common divisor, Quotition and partition, Remainder, Fractional part ::*Subtraction without borrowing, Long division, Short division, Modulo operation, Chunking (division), Multiplication and repeated addition, Euclidean division, Division by zero :*Plus and minus signs, Multiplication sign, Division sign, Equals sign :*Equality (mathematics), Inequality (mathematics), Logical equivalence :*Ratio

Structure

Space

Change

Foundations and philosophy

Mathematical logic

See also: Outline of mathematical logic - Outline of logic

Main Article: Mathematical logic

Discrete mathematics

Applied mathematics

History

Regional history

Subject history

Psychology

Influential mathematicians

Mathematical notation

Classification systems

Journals and databases

Main article: List of mathematics journals

  • Mathematical Reviews – journal and online database published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) that contains brief synopses (and occasionally evaluations) of many articles in mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science.
  • Zentralblatt MATH – service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics, published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is a major international reviewing service which covers the entire field of mathematics. It uses the Mathematics Subject Classification codes for organizing their reviews by topic.

See also

References

Bibliography

Citations

1)
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/language/MathIsLanguage.shtml, Title: Mathematics Is a Language, Bogomolny, Alexander
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