What is the piont of Math?
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Do you mean, what is the point of studying math in school?  Studying math teaches basic logic skills.  It teaches exactly what it means to prove something.  Most people think that if you can show that something is likely, that likelyhood qualifies as proof.  It doesn't.  the problem is that we live in a society that looks down on logic, where people don't even know the difference between the questions, "What are you thinking?" , and "What are you feeling?"\n\nIts important to know how to apply a process.  To know how to approach any situation in a neutral, uninvolved state of mind.  Studying math can teach these things, if you surrender yourself to it.
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Mathematics can be defined as the logically rigorous study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. Another view, held by many mathematicians, is that mathematics is the body of knowledge justified by deductive reasoning, starting from axioms and definitions.\n\nMathematics is used throughout the world in fields such as science, engineering, surveying, medicine, and economics. These fields both inspire and make use of new discoveries in mathematics. New mathematics is also created for its own sake, without any particular application in view.\n\nThe word "mathematics" comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthēma) meaning science, knowledge, or learning, and μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós), meaning fond of learning. It is often abbreviated math in North American English and maths in Commonwealth English .\nHistory\n\n    Main article: History of mathematics\n\nThe evolution of mathematics might be seen to be an ever-increasing series of abstractions, or alternatively an expansion of subject matter. The first abstraction was probably that of numbers. The realization that two apples and two oranges have something in common, namely that they fill the hands of exactly one person, was a breakthrough in human thought. In addition to recognizing how to count concrete objects, prehistoric peoples also recognized how to count abstract quantities, like time -- days, seasons, years. Arithmetic (e.g., addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), naturally followed. Monolithic monuments testify to a knowledge of geometry.\n\nFurther steps need writing or some other system for recording numbers such as tallies or the knotted strings called khipu used by the Inca empire to store numerical data. Numeral systems have been many and diverse.\n\nFrom the beginnings of recorded history, the major disciplines within mathematics arose out of the need to do calculations on taxation and commerce, to understand the relationships among numbers, to measure land, and to predict astronomical events. These needs can be roughly related to the broad subdivision of mathematics, into the studies of quantity, structure, space, and change.\n\nMathematics since has been much extended, and there has been a fruitful interaction between mathematics and science, to the benefit of both.\n\nMathematical discoveries have been made throughout history and continue to be made today. According to Mikhail B. Sevryuk, in the January 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, "The number of papers and books included in the Mathematical Reviews database since 1940 (the first year of operation of MR) is now more than 1.9 million, and more than 75 thousand items are added to the database each year. The overwhelming majority of works in this ocean contain new mathematical theorems and their proof."\n[edit]\n\nInspiration, pure and applied mathematics, and aesthetics\n\n    Main article: Mathematical beauty\n\nMathematics arises wherever there are difficult problems that involve quantity, structure, space, or change. At first these were found in commerce, land measurement and later astronomy; nowadays, all sciences suggest problems studied by mathematicians, and many problems arise within mathematics itself. Newton invented infinitesimal calculus and Feynman his Feynman path integral using a combination of reasoning and physical insight, and today's string theory also inspires new mathematics. Some mathematics is only relevant in the area that inspired it, and is applied to solve further problems in that area. But often mathematics inspired by one area proves useful in many areas, and joins the general stock of mathematical concepts. The remarkable fact that even the "purest" mathematics often turns out to have practical applications is what Eugene Wigner has called "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics."\n\nAs in most areas of study, the explosion of knowledge in the scientific
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Like language Mathematics is a language to explain the Universe. As language has developed over the various stages of the civilization, Mathematics as subject has also developed over thousands of years. Man is prior to his devises.
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By definition, pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is always the same number, no matter which circle you use to compute it. \nFor the sake of usefulness people often need to approximate pi. For many purposes you can use 3.14159, which is really pretty good, but if you want a better approximation you can use a computer to get it. Here's pi to many more digits: 3.14159265358979323846.
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Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the academic discipline that deals with such concepts as quantity, structure, space, and change. It evolved, through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, from counting, calculation, measurement, and the study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.[1]\n\nKnowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life. Refinements of the basic ideas are visible in ancient mathematical texts originating in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and ancient India, with increased rigour later introduced by the ancient Greeks. From this point on, the development continued in short bursts until the Renaissance period of the 16th century where mathematical innovations interacted with new scientific discoveries leading to an acceleration in understanding that continues to the present day.[2]\n\nToday, mathematics is used throughout the world in many fields, including science, engineering, medicine and economics. The application of mathematics to such fields, often dubbed applied mathematics, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and has sometimes led to the development of entirely new disciplines. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics for its own sake without having any practical application in mind, although applications for what begins as pure mathematics are often discovered later on
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you LIKE math????\n\nit takes a special kind of person i guess....lol
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Pi is the ratio of circumfarence of circle to the diameter. It is irrational and approximated by 22/7\n\nThis can be defined as 4(tan ^-1 1)
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http://mathworld.wolfram.com\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics
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What does this have to do with math?
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Algebra, concepts of proof, logic, set theory (baby version), number theory, maybe some other stuff.
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Pi is defined as a circle's circumference divided by its diameter. No matter what the radius of the circle is, when you divide those quantities, you'll get pi. \n\nHere's the weird thing: pi is more than just an irrational number. It's also a *transcendental* number, so "it \ncannot be the root of an algebraic equation with a finite number of terms." Quoted from the link below.
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oddly enough, mine is math. i just love it. plus its the only thing i actually remember after a test(for some reason, my mind likes to erase things i've been tested on.)
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Since Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, it occurs wherever periodic or trigonometric structures are studied, as well as spherical structures which occur such as contour integration, measure theory (analysis, probability and statistics), and differential geometry. It is thus also a natural way of measuring angles.
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Maths. I never understood it. Probably i nver had any good teacher who explained it in a way i understood. u will like a subject only if u have understood it properly
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Mathametics is the science of precise observation where the space and surroundings are well defined. By changing the configuration, one can get different results, but that is not maths. For example, if one takes a rectangular post card and cuts off one corner by a sharp scissor, one would find there are five corners formed on the card. This does not mean 'Four minus one produces Five'.  Similarly, the three angles of a triangle drawn on a plane paper add up to 180'.  But if the triangle is drawn on the surface of a foot-ball, the sum will be more than 180'. The poser 2 X 2 = 5 is a similar proposition.
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What else... Physics!\n\nSince your question is very comman, the commanest answer would be "Physics".\n\nIn case you have any particular concept in mind state it clearly in your question then the model with respect mathematics can be given sooooooon.
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In Euclidean plane geometry, π may be defined either as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, or as the ratio of a circle's area to the area of a square whose side is the radius. Advanced textbooks define π analytically using trigonometric functions, for example as the smallest positive x for which sin(x) = 0, or as twice the smallest positive x for which cos(x) = 0.\n\nAll these definitions are equivalent, they amount to the following numerical value of π, truncated to 50 decimal places:\n\n3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510... \n\nThe digits can be up to 4 millions digits (http://www.zenwerx.com/pi.php )