Mathematics – The Basis Of Science

What is mathematics? Mathematics is regarded as one of the vital aspects of science without which the human civilization cannot move even a bit! It is in general regarded as a definite notion of knowledge which is centered on various concepts, for instance, quantity, structure, space, and change, and along with it the academic discipline that studies them. It was Benjamin Peirce who for the first time termed it as "the science that draws necessary conclusions". However, there are also other schools of thoughts, or practitioners of mathematics to whom the subjct of mathematics happen to be an exact science of pattern and for that mathematicians look for patterns whether found in numbers, space, science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere. It has been found through ages that the mathematicians in general explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by the sole process of rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.
As a result, by the means of the use of the process of abstraction and logical reasoning, the discipline of mathematics evolved from the general processes of counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. In this esteem it is to be remmbered that both knowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inmseparable part of individual and group life. The recent researches and also findings do proclaim that the refinements of the basic ideas are visible in mathematical texts that originated in the ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Islamic worlds.

In the present world the science of mathematics is used extensively in various fields, of which the most prominent are natural science, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences such as economics. To conclude, the science of mathematics gets also engaged in pure mathematics, or mathematics for its own sake, without having any application in mind, although applications for what began as pure mathematics are often discovered later.