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When it comes to mathematics, he's in a different class to his peers.说到数学，他和他的同龄人不在一个级别上。
You need a firm grasp of mathematics to become an astronaut.要成为宇航员，数学知识必须非常扎实。
I studied pure mathematics.

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Branches & types of mathematics
algebra
arithmetic
biomathematics
calculus
catastrophe theory
differential calculus
differentiate
differentiation
Euclidean
game theory
geometric
mathematically
maths
mensuration
mental arithmetic
non-Euclidean
non-mathematical
trig
trigonometric
trigonometry

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Subjects & disciplines

mathematics | American Dictionary

mathematics
noun[ U ]
us/ˌmæθ·əˈmæt̬·ɪks/(short formmath, us/mæθ/)
the science of numbers, forms, amounts, and their relationships

mathematical

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˌmæθ·ə·ˈmæt̬·ɪ·kəl/
a mathematical formula

Examples of mathematics

mathematics
The mathematics of physics should be explored, but new mathematical, statistical, and qualitative methodologies should also be sought.
The book was in two parts, the first part philosophical, the second dealing with mathematics and the natural sciences.
But they had - at the same time - to be war y that mathematics was not "so close" to applications as to produce unwanted philosophical conflict.
He thereby wished to purify mathematics of any reliance on the external world.
It is based on physical principles, but the mathematics is limited so that interested undergraduate students will be able to follow.
As such, they are the outcome both of a historical process of reciprocal interaction with the body of mathematics and of external influences.
Clear physical explanations are given throughout, making it possible to follow easily in sections where the mathematics are difficult.
According to the traditional hierarchy of the sciences, psychology is far separated from physics and mathematics by the intervening sciences of chemistry, biology, and neurophysiology.
Therefore, however complicated this simplicity might be for the human mind, mathematics is the master tool with which to seize the truth of the world.
The notation for the potential formulation is also simpler, making it easier to understand the underlying physics and mathematics.
Those artifacts include language, logic, mathematics, graphics, symbols, and various tools and devices, whether mechanical or electronic.
And a group with no need for higher mathematics may package complex arithmetic in its numbering system.
Such changes also produced a revolution in the images of geometrical knowledge and simultaneously triggered interesting and fruitful processes of reflexive thinking in mathematics.
Not only did such canons apply to natural science and to mathematics, but they applied to "mixed sciences" such as optics and mechanics as well.
This fact helps explain the small number of women staff in disciplines such as mathematics, physics, and mechanics.
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Collocations withmathematics

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advanced mathematics
My wife dealt in advancedmathematics in a grammar school.
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