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The History of Mathematics

What Is Mathematics?

What is the origin of the word “mathematics”?

According to most sources, the word mathematics is derived from the Latin mathmaticus and from the Greek mathematikos, meaning mathematical. (Other forms include mathema, meaning “learning,” and manthanein, meaning “to learn”.)



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