What is Mathematics?

Mathematics (colloquially, maths or math) is the body of knowledge centered on such concepts as structure, space, quantity, and change, and also the academic discipline that studies them. Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws important conclusions". Additional practitioners of mathematics keep that mathematics is the science of example, and that mathematicians look for patterns whether found in numbers, science, space, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere. Mathematicians determine alike concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by correct deduction from appropriately preferred axioms and definitions.

All the way through the use of abstraction and the logical reasoning, mathematics evolved from counting, measurement, calculation, and the systematic learning of the shapes and motions of the physical objects. The Knowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life. The Refinements of the basic thoughts are noticeable in mathematical texts originating in ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient China, Mesopotamia, and ancient Greece. The Rigorous arguments appear in Euclid's Elements. The development continued in fitful bursts until the Renaissance period of the 16th century, when mathematical innovations associated with new scientific discoveries, leading to acceleration in research that continues to the recent day.