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The earliest written mathematics likely began with tally marks, where each mark represented one unit, carved into wood or stone.An example of early counting is the Ishango bone, found near the Nile and dating back over 20,000 years ago, which is thought to show a six-month lunar calendar. [6]
The language of mathematics has a wide vocabulary of specialist and technical terms. It also has a certain amount of jargon: commonly used phrases which are part of the culture of mathematics, rather than of the subject.
A mathematical object is an abstract concept arising in mathematics. [1] Typically, a mathematical object can be a value that can be assigned to a symbol, and therefore can be involved in formulas.
The word proof derives from the Latin probare 'to test'; related words include English probe, probation, and probability, as well as Spanish probar 'to taste' (sometimes 'to touch' or 'to test'), [5] Italian provare 'to try', and German probieren 'to try'.
Mathematical models can take many forms, including dynamical systems, statistical models, differential equations, or game theoretic models.These and other types of models can overlap, with a given model involving a variety of abstract structures.
A scalar is an element of a field which is used to define a vector space.In linear algebra, real numbers or generally elements of a field are called scalars and relate to vectors in an associated vector space through the operation of scalar multiplication (defined in the vector space), in which a vector can be multiplied by a scalar in the defined way to produce another vector.
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