Noun: mathematics
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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My mathematics is always improving.
Nouns inflected like mathematics
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First use appears c. 1545. From mathematic (noun) + -ics, from Middle English mathematique, methametik, matematik, matamatik, from Old French mathematique, from Latin mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “on the matter of that which is learned”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”). Displaced native Old English rīmcræft. See: Middle English Nouns '
mathematique', Latin Nouns '
mathēmatica', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μαθηματικός'.