mathematics
/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ noun B1- An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
- A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels. · My mathematics is always improving.
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Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
“Alas, my boy,” said he, “human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself.
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