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'''Mathematics''' (colloquially, '''maths''' or '''math'''), is the body of knowledge centered on such concepts as [[quantity]], [[structure]], [[space]], and [[change]], and also the academic discipline that studies them. [[Benjamin Peirce]] called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions".Peirce, p.97
'''Mathematics''' (colloquially, '''maths''' or '''math'''), is the body of knowledge centered on such concepts as [[quantity]], [[structure]], [[space]], and [[change]], and also the academic discipline that studies them. [[Benjamin Peirce]] called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions".Peirce, p.97
Other practitioners of mathematics [[Lynn Steen|Steen, L.A.]] (April 29, 1988). ''The Science of Patterns.'' [[Science (journal)|Science]], 240: 611–616. and summarized at [http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.chapter/menuitem.1889bf0176da7573127855b3e3108a0c/?chapterMgmtId=f97433df69abb010VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.][[Keith Devlin|Devlin, Keith]], ''Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe'' (Scientific American Paperback Library) 1996, ISBN 9780716750475 maintain that mathematics is the science of pattern, that [[mathematician]]s seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new [[conjecture]]s and establish their truth by [[Rigour#Mathematical rigour|rigorous]] [[deductive reasoning|deduction]] from appropriately chosen [[axiom]]s and [[definition]]s.
Other practitioners of mathematics [[Lynn Steen|Steen, L.A.]] (April 29, 1988). ''The Science of Patterns.'' [[Science (journal)|Science]], 240: 611–616. and summarized at [http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.chapter/menuitem.1889bf0176da7573127855b3e3108a0c/?chapterMgmtId=f97433df69abb010VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.][[Keith Devlin|Devlin, Keith]], ''Mathematics: The Science of Patterns: The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe'' (Scientific American Paperback Library) 1996, ISBN 9780716750475 maintain that mathematics is the science of pattern, that [[mathematician]]s seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new [[conjecture]]s and establish their truth by [[Rigour#Mathematical rigour|rigorous]] [[deductive reasoning|deduction]] from appropriately chosen [[axiom]]s and [[definition]]s.
