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Many contemporary reereencfs define mathematics by summarizing its main topics:”the abstract science which investigates deductively the conclusions implicit in the elementary conceptions of spatial and numerical relations, and which includes as its main divisions geometry, arithmetic, and algebra.” Oxford English Dictionary, 1933″The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols.” American Heritage Dictionary, 2000These definitions all include relations and other abstractions, and so these definitions are broader than the Aristotelian definition of mathematics as “the science of quantity.”[citation needed]Some mathematicians have attempted to define mathematics under a single principle, such as the study of patterns:”A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.” G. H. Hardy, 1940.”Mathematics is the classification and study of all possible patterns.” Walter Warwick Sawyer, 1955.Sawyer goes on to explain in his Prelude to Mathematics that patterns are “any kind of regularity that can be recognized by the mind.”Instead of pattern, some see the primary principle as that of order and structure.Mathematics is “the science of structure, order, and relation that has evolved from elemental practices of counting, measuring, and describing the shapes of objects.” Encyclopaedia BritannicaOthers see the defining criterion as that of abstraction:”Mathematics is a broad-ranging field of study in which the properties and interactions of idealized objects are examined.” Wolfram MathWorldMany people understand mathematics as the study of theorems and axiomatic systems. However, this can be problematic as a definition because it does not describe initial mathematical explorations of new topics, including most of the mathematics done in the 17th and 18th centuries.[2] In their book What is Mathematics?, Courant & Robbins caution against emphasizing the deductive character of mathematics over the driving forces of intuition and construction.”There is more to mathematics than proof. Indeed, the vast majority of people who earn their living ‘doing math’ are not engaged in finding proofs at all; their goal is to solve problems to whatever degree of accuracy or certainty is required. While proof remains the ultimate, ‘gold standard’ for mathematical truth, conclusions reached on the basis of assessing the available evidence have always been a valid part of the mathematical enterprise.” Keith Devlin, 2009 IT”S all from sites…. kashtam…