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This screenshot shows the formula E = mc 2 being edited using VisualEditor.The window is opened by typing "<math>" in VisualEditor. The visual editor shows a button that allows to choose one of three offered modes to display a formula.
It is believed that a notation to represent numbers was first developed at least 50,000 years ago. [3] Early mathematical ideas such as finger counting [4] have also been represented by collections of rocks, sticks, bone, clay, stone, wood carvings, and knotted ropes. The tally stick is a way of counting dating back to the Upper Paleolithic.
A mathematical markup language is a computer notation for representing mathematical formulae, based on mathematical notation.Specialized markup languages are necessary because computers normally deal with linear text and more limited character sets (although increasing support for Unicode is obsoleting very simple uses).
The apparent plural form in English goes back to the Latin neuter plural mathematica , based on the Greek plural ta mathēmatiká (τὰ μαθηματικά) and means roughly "all things mathematical", although it is plausible that English borrowed only the adjective mathematic(al) and formed the noun mathematics anew, after the pattern of ...
On the left is a sphere, whose volume V is given by the mathematical formula V = 4 / 3 π r 3. On the right is the compound isobutane , which has chemical formula (CH 3 ) 3 CH. One of the most influential figures of computing science 's founding generation , Edsger Dijkstra at the blackboard during a conference at ETH Zurich in 1994.
In category theory, write Hom-sets, or morphisms from A to B, as Hom(A,B) rather than Mor(A,B) (and with the implied convention that the category is not a small category unless that is said). The semidirect product of groups K and Q should be written K × φ Q or Q × φ K where K is the normal subgroup and φ : Q → Aut(K) is the homomorphism ...
2. Equivalence class: given an equivalence relation, [] often denotes the equivalence class of the element x. 3. Integral part: if x is a real number, [] often denotes the integral part or truncation of x, that is, the integer obtained by removing all digits after the decimal mark.
The consequence of these features is that a mathematical text is generally not understandable without some prerequisite knowledge. For example, the sentence "a free module is a module that has a basis" is perfectly correct, although it appears only as a grammatically correct nonsense, when one does not know the definitions of basis, module, and free module.