Draft:Mathematics

The universe within 1 billion light-years (307 Mpc) of Earth is shown to contain the local superclusters, galaxy filaments and voids. Credit: Richard Powell.

Mathematics is about numbers (counting), quantity, and coordinates.

Notations

Notational locations
Weight Oversymbol Exponent
Coefficient Variable Operation
Number Range Index

For each of the notational locations around the central Variable, conventions are often set by consensus as to use. For example, Exponent is often used as an exponent to a number or variable: 2-2 or x2.

A common Oversymbol is one for the average ${\displaystyle {\overline {Variable}}}$.

Operation may be replaced by a function, for example.

All notational locations could look something like

 bx ${\displaystyle -}$ x = n a ${\displaystyle \sum }$ f(x) n → ∞

where the center line means "a x Σ f(x)" for all added up values of f(x) when x = n from say 0 to infinity with each term in the sum before the summation is multiplied by bn, then divided by n for an average whenever n is finite.

Abstractions

This chart visualizes all of the related LDAP RFCs and their statuses. Credit: Wbenton.

Def.

1. a "separation from worldly objects",[1]
2. "the withdrawal from one's senses",[2]
3. the "act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics;"[3]
4. "the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas",[2]
5. the "act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities;"[3]
6. "the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization",[2]
7. an "idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature",[2] or
8. any "generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems"[4]

is called an abstraction.

The image on the right is an example of the literature of abstraction.

Numbers

 ${\displaystyle 1,2,3,\ldots \!}$ ${\displaystyle \ldots ,-2,-1,0,1,2\,\ldots \!}$ ${\displaystyle -2,{\frac {2}{3}},1.21\,\!}$ ${\displaystyle -e,{\sqrt {2}},3,\pi \,\!}$ ${\displaystyle 2,i,-2+3i,2e^{i{\frac {4\pi }{3}}}\,\!}$ Natural numbers Integers Rational numbers Real numbers Complex numbers
A calculator display showing an approximation to the Avogadro constant in E notation. Credit: PRHaney.

Scientific notation (more commonly known as standard form) is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form. Scientific notation has a number of useful properties and is commonly used in calculators and by scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

Standard decimal
notation
Normalized scientific notation
2 2×100
300 3×102
4,321.768 4.321768×103
-53,000 −5.3×104
6,720,000,000 6.72×109
0.2 2×10−1
0.000 000 007 51 7.51×10−9

A metric prefix or SI prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a decadic multiple or fraction of the unit. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to the unit symbol.

Metric prefixes
Prefix Symbol 1000m 10n Decimal Short scale Long scale Since[n 1]
yotta Y 10008 1024 1000000000000000000000000 septillion quadrillion 1991
zetta Z 10007 1021 1000000000000000000000 sextillion trilliard 1991
exa E 10006 1018 1000000000000000000 quintillion trillion 1975
peta P 10005 1015 1000000000000000 quadrillion billiard 1975
tera T 10004 1012 1000000000000 trillion billion 1960
giga G 10003 109 1000000000 billion milliard 1960
mega M 10002 106 1000000 million 1960
kilo k 10001 103 1000 thousand 1795
hecto h 10002/3 102 100 hundred 1795
deca da 10001/3 101 10 ten 1795
10000 100 1 one
deci d 1000−1/3 10−1 0.1 tenth 1795
centi c 1000−2/3 10−2 0.01 hundredth 1795
milli m 1000−1 10−3 0.001 thousandth 1795
micro μ 1000−2 10−6 0.000001 millionth 1960
nano n 1000−3 10−9 0.000000001 billionth milliardth 1960
pico p 1000−4 10−12 0.000000000001 trillionth billionth 1960
femto f 1000−5 10−15 0.000000000000001 quadrillionth billiardth 1964
atto a 1000−6 10−18 0.000000000000000001 quintillionth trillionth 1964
zepto z 1000−7 10−21 0.000000000000000000001 sextillionth trilliardth 1991
yocto y 1000−8 10−24 0.000000000000000000000001 septillionth quadrillionth 1991
1. The metric system was introduced in 1795 with six prefixes. The other dates relate to recognition by a resolution of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM)]].

A significant figure is a digit in a number that adds to its precision. This includes all nonzero numbers, zeroes between significant digits, and zeroes indicated to be significant.

Leading and trailing zeroes are not significant because they exist only to show the scale of the number. Therefore, 1,230,400 has five significant figures—1, 2, 3, 0, and 4; the two zeroes serve only as placeholders and add no precision to the original number.

When a number is converted into normalized scientific notation, it is scaled down to a number between 1 and 10. All of the significant digits remain, but all of the place holding zeroes are incorporated into the exponent. Following these rules, 1,230,400 becomes 1.2304 x 106.

It is customary in scientific measurements to record all the significant digits from the measurements, for example, 1,230,400, but the measurement may have introduced an error which when calculated indcates the last significant digit has a range of values where the most likely one is the "4". The range may be 3-5 so that the last significant digit plus this error may be written as (4,1) meaning 4-1=3 and 4+1=5.

Another example of significant digits is the speed of all massless particles and associated fields—including electromagnetic radiation such as light—in vacuum. The most accurate value is 299792.4562±0.0011 km/s.[5] The magnitude of the speed is 299792.4562 and the actual measured variation is ±0.0011 so that the last two significant digits "62" are most likely within a variation from "51" to "73".

Most calculators and many computer programs present very large and very small results in E notation. The letter E or e is often used to represent times ten raised to the power of (which would be written as "x 10b") where b represents a number and is followed by the value of the exponent.

Def. any "real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers"[6] is called an irrational number.

Def. incapable "of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof"[7] is called uncountable.

An uncountable set of numbers such as the irrational numbers lies somewhere between a finite set of numbers, for example, the set of natural factors of 6: {1,2,3,6}, and an infinite set of numbers such as the natural numbers.

Def. the "branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers"[8] is called number theory.

Theoretical mathematics

Def. an "abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure and change and the relationships between these concepts"[9] is called mathematics.

Arithmetics

Notation: let the symbol > represent greater than.

For example, the integer five (5) is greater than the integer (2): 5 > 2.

Notation: let the symbol < represent less than also known as smaller than

For example, 2 < 3.

Notation: let the relation symbol indicate that two expressions are different.

For example, 2 x 3 ≠ 5 x 7.

Notation: let the relation symbol ~ represent similar to.

For example, depending on the scale involved, 7 ~ 8 on a scale of 10, 7/10 = 0.7 and 8/10 = 0.8. Relative to numbers between 0.5 and 1.0, 0.7 ~ 0.8, but 0.2 ≁ 0.7.

Similarity may be close such as 0.7 ≈ 0.8, but 0.5 ~ 0.8. Or similarity may include equality, 5 ± 3 ≃ 4 ± 2. When the degree of equality is greater than the degree of similarity, the symbol ≅ is used. The reverse is represented by ≊.

Def. the "mathematics of numbers (integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers) under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division"[10] is called an arithmetic.

Def. a "symbol ( = ) used in mathematics to indicate that two values are the same"[11] is called an equal sign.

Consider the integers: 1 and 2. The statement, "1 + 2 = 3", contains the operation + (addition) and the relation = (equals).

The exponent can require a different operator of arithmetic.

The number ${\displaystyle e}$ is an important mathematical constant, approximately equal to 2.71828, that is the base of the natural logarithm.[12]

${\displaystyle e=1+{\frac {1}{1}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 2}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 2\cdot 3}}+{\frac {1}{1\cdot 2\cdot 3\cdot 4}}+\cdots }$
e2 + e3 ≠ e5. Yet
e2 x e3 = e(2 + 3) = e5.

Usually, pure arithmetic only involves numbers. But, when arithmetic is used in a science such as radiation astronomy, dimensional analysis is also applicable.

To build an observatory usually requires adding components together.

1 dome + 1 telescope + 1 outbuilding + 1 control room + 1 laboratory + 1 observation room may = 1 observatory.

Yet,

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 6 components in 1 simple observatory.

However, attempting to add 1 dome to 1 telescope may have little or no meaning. The operation of addition would be similar to the operation of construction.

If 1 G2V star is added to 1 M2V star the result may be a double star. The operation of addition here usually requires an explanation (a theory).

Algebras

Notation: let the symbol * designate an as yet unspecified operation.

Notation: let the symbol R designate an as yet unspecified relation.

Def. a "system for computation using letters or other symbols to represent numbers, with rules for manipulating these symbols"[13] is called an algebra.

Fundamentally, algebra uses letters to represent as yet unspecified numbers. The numbers may be integers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, or any real number or complex number. As an experimentalist, eventually you must find a way to change unspecified numbers into specified ones. But, as a theoretician, first you are free to leave the numbers in some algebraic form, then to have your theory tested by any experimentalist you need to relate the algebraic terms of your theory to real or complex numbers.

Consider the lower case letters of the English alphabet: a and n. The statement, "a * n R an", contains the operation * (followed by) and the relation R (spells the word).

The manipulations of these symbols are performed using operations.

Def. "a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands; the value for any particular operand is unique)"[14] is called an operation.

Notation: let the symbol ${\displaystyle \sum }$ represent the summation of many terms.

Notation: let the symbol ${\displaystyle \Pi }$ represent the product of many terms.

The results are recorded using statements of relation.

Def. a "relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain"[15] is called a function.

Geometries

Mathematics: Figures shown in the same color are similar. Credit: Amada44.
A polyhedron resembling a sphere rotating around an axis. Credit: BorisFromStockdale.

Def. of "geometrical figures including triangles, squares, ellipses, arcs and more complex figures, having the same shape but possibly different size, rotational orientation, and position; in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional; such that one can be had from the other using a sequence of operations of rotation, translation and scaling"[16] is called similar.

Def. "a branch of mathematics that studies solutions of systems of algebraic equations using both algebra and geometry"[17] is called algebraic geometry.

Def. "a branch of mathematics that investigates properties of figures through the coordinates of their points"[18] is called analytic geometry.

Def. "a branch of mathematics that investigates those properties of figures that are invariant when projected from a point to a line or plane"[19] is called projective geometry.

The universe as often perceived may be described spatially, sometimes with plane geometry, other occasions with spherical geometry.

Def. the "act of turning around a centre or an axis"[20] is called a rotation.

A rotation is a circular movement of an object around a center (or point) of rotation. A three-dimensional object rotates always around an imaginary line called a rotation axis. If the axis is within the body, and passes through its center of mass the body is said to rotate upon itself, or spin. A rotation about an external point, e.g. the Earth about the Sun, is called a revolution or orbital revolution

Def. "the traversal of one body through an orbit around another body"[21] is called a revolution.

Conic sections

Conics are of three types: parabolas , ellipses, including circles, and hyperbolas. Credit: .
Conic parameters are shown in the case of an ellipse. Credit: .

Def. any "of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola"[22] is called a conic section.

In mathematics, a conic section (or just conic) is a curve obtained as the intersection of a cone (more precisely, a right circular conical surface) with a plane.

Various parameters are associated with a conic section, as shown in the following table. (For the ellipse, the table gives the case of a>b, for which the major axis is horizontal; for the reverse case, interchange the symbols a and b. For the hyperbola the east-west opening case is given. In all cases, a and b are positive.)

conic section equation eccentricity (e) linear eccentricity (c) semi-latus rectum () focal parameter (p)
circle ${\displaystyle x^{2}+y^{2}=a^{2}\,}$ ${\displaystyle 0\,}$ ${\displaystyle 0\,}$ ${\displaystyle a\,}$ ${\displaystyle \infty }$
ellipse ${\displaystyle {\frac {x^{2}}{a^{2}}}+{\frac {y^{2}}{b^{2}}}=1}$ ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {1-{\frac {b^{2}}{a^{2}}}}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {a^{2}-b^{2}}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\frac {b^{2}}{a}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\frac {b^{2}}{\sqrt {a^{2}-b^{2}}}}}$
parabola ${\displaystyle y^{2}=4ax\,}$ ${\displaystyle 1\,}$ ${\displaystyle a\,}$ ${\displaystyle 2a\,}$ ${\displaystyle 2a\,}$
hyperbola ${\displaystyle {\frac {x^{2}}{a^{2}}}-{\frac {y^{2}}{b^{2}}}=1}$ ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {1+{\frac {b^{2}}{a^{2}}}}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {a^{2}+b^{2}}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\frac {b^{2}}{a}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\frac {b^{2}}{\sqrt {a^{2}+b^{2}}}}}$

Spherical geometries

On a sphere, the sum of the angles of a triangle is not equal to 180°. Credit: .

Def. the "non-Euclidean geometry on the surface of a sphere"[23] is called spherical geometry.

Spherical geometry is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere. It is an example of a geometry which is not Euclidean. Two practical applications of the principles of spherical geometry are to navigation and astronomy.

A sphere suggested by the image of the Earth at right is not a Euclidean space, but locally the laws of the Euclidean geometry are good approximations. In a small triangle on the face of the earth, the sum of the angles is very nearly 180. The surface of a sphere can be represented by a collection of two dimensional maps. Therefore it is a two dimensional manifold.

The great-circle or [Great Circle] orthodromic distance is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere measured along a path on the surface of the sphere (as opposed to going through the sphere's interior). Because spherical geometry is different from ordinary Euclidean geometry, the equations for distance take on a different form. The distance between two points in Euclidean space is the length of a straight line from one point to the other. On the sphere, however, there are no straight lines. In non-Euclidean geometry, straight lines are replaced with geodesics. Geodesics on the sphere are the great circles (circles on the sphere whose centers are coincident with the center of the sphere).

Through any two points on a sphere which are not directly opposite each other, there is a unique great circle. The two points separate the great circle into two arcs. The length of the shorter arc is the great-circle distance between the points. A great circle endowed with such a distance is the Riemannian circle.

Trigonometries

Def. "the relationships between the sides and the angles of triangles and the calculations based on them"[24] is called trigonometry.

Trigonometry studies triangles and the relationships between their sides and the angles between these sides. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclical phenomena, such as waves.

Calculuses

This diagram shows an approximation to an area under a curve. Credit: Dubhe.

Notation: let the symbol ${\displaystyle \Delta }$ represent change in.

Notation: let the symbol ${\displaystyle d}$ represent an infinitesimal change in.

Notation: let the symbol ${\displaystyle \partial }$ represent an infinitesimal change in one of more than one.

Def. significant "change in or effect on a situation or state"[25] or a "result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result"[25] is called a difference.

Def. a result of an "operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law"[26] is called a derivative.

Let

${\displaystyle y=f(x)}$

be a function where values of ${\displaystyle x}$ may be any real number and values resulting in ${\displaystyle y}$ are also any real number.

${\displaystyle \Delta x}$ is a small finite change in ${\displaystyle x}$ which when put into the function ${\displaystyle f(x)}$ produces a ${\displaystyle \Delta y}$.

These small changes can be manipulated with the operations of arithmetic: addition (${\displaystyle +}$), subtraction (${\displaystyle -}$), multiplication (${\displaystyle *}$), and division (${\displaystyle /}$).

${\displaystyle \Delta y=f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}$

Dividing ${\displaystyle \Delta y}$ by ${\displaystyle \Delta x}$ and taking the limit as ${\displaystyle \Delta x}$ → 0, produces the slope of a line tangent to f(x) at the point x.

For example,

${\displaystyle f(x)=x^{2}}$
${\displaystyle f(x+\Delta x)=(x+\Delta x)^{2}=x^{2}+2x\Delta x+\Delta x^{2}}$
${\displaystyle \Delta y=x^{2}+2x\Delta x+\Delta x^{2}-x^{2}=2x\Delta x+\Delta x^{2}}$
${\displaystyle {\Delta y \over \Delta x}={2x\Delta x+\Delta x^{2} \over \Delta x}=2x+\Delta x}$

as ${\displaystyle \Delta x}$ and${\displaystyle \Delta y}$ go towards zero,

${\displaystyle dy/dx=2x+dx=limit_{\Delta x\to 0}{f(x+\Delta x)-f(x) \over \Delta x}=2x.}$

This ratio is called the derivative.

Let

${\displaystyle y=f(x,z)}$

then

${\displaystyle \partial y=\partial f(x,z)=\partial f(x,z)\partial x+\partial f(x,z)\partial z}$
${\displaystyle \partial y/\partial x=\partial f(x,z)}$

where z is held constant and

${\displaystyle \partial y/\partial z=\partial f(x,z)}$

where x is held contstant.

Notation: let the symbol ${\displaystyle \nabla }$ be the gradient, i.e., derivatives for multivariable functions.

${\displaystyle \nabla f(x,z)=\partial y=\partial f(x,z)=\partial f(x,z)\partial x+\partial f(x,z)\partial z.}$

For

${\displaystyle \Delta x*\Delta y=[f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)]*\Delta x}$

the area under the curve shown in the diagram at right is the light purple rectangle plus the dark purple rectangle in the top figure

${\displaystyle \Delta x*\Delta y+f(x)*\Delta x=f(x+\Delta x)*\Delta x.}$

Any particular individual rectangle for a sum of rectangular areas is

${\displaystyle f(x_{i}+\Delta x_{i})*\Delta x_{i}.}$

The approximate area under the curve is the sum ${\displaystyle \sum }$ of all the individual (i) areas from i = 0 to as many as the area needed (n):

${\displaystyle \sum _{i=0}^{n}f(x_{i}+\Delta x_{i})*\Delta x_{i}.}$

Notation: let the symbol ${\displaystyle \int }$ represent the integral.

${\displaystyle limit_{\Delta x\to 0}\sum _{i=0}^{n}f(x_{i}+\Delta x_{i})*\Delta x_{i}=\int f(x)dx.}$

This can be within a finite interval [a,b]

${\displaystyle \int _{a}^{b}f(x)\;dx}$

when i = 0 the integral is evaluated at ${\displaystyle a}$ and i = n the integral is evaluated at ${\displaystyle b}$. Or, an indefinite integral (without notation on the integral symbol) as n goes to infinity and i = 0 is the integral evaluated at x = 0.

Def. a branch of mathematics that deals with the finding and properties of infinitesimal differences or changes is called a calculus.

Calculus focuses on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series.

"Although calculus (in the sense of analysis) is usually synonymous with infinitesimal calculus, not all historical formulations have relied on infinitesimals (infinitely small numbers that are nevertheless not zero)."[27]

Line integrals

Def. an "integral the domain of whose integrand is a curve"[28] is called a line integral.

"The pulsar dispersion measures [(DM)] provide directly the value of

${\displaystyle DM=\int _{0}^{\infty }n_{e}\,ds}$

along the line of sight to the pulsar, while the interstellar Hα intensity (at high Galactic latitudes where optical extinction is minimal) is proportional to the emission measure"[29]

${\displaystyle EM=\int _{0}^{\infty }n_{e}^{2}ds.}$

Vectors

Def. a quantity that has both magnitude and direction"[30]

1. "the signed difference between two points"[31] or
2. an "ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the signed difference between two points"[31] is called a vector.

"An observed time series consists of N data values x(tα) taken at a set of N discrete times {tα}. Hence it defines an N-dimensional contravariant vector in sampling space, by taking as the αth component of the vector, the value of the data at time tα, i.e.,

${\displaystyle x^{\alpha }=[x({t_{1}}),x({t_{2}}),...,x({t_{N}})].}$

This representation is the canonical basis for sampling space."[32]

Tensors

Def. a "mathematical object consisting of a set of components with n indices each of which range from 1 to m where n is the rank and m is the dimension"[33] is called a tensor.

"An impressive array of time series analysis methods are equivalent to treating the data as a vector in function space, then projecting the data vector onto a subspace of low dimension. A geometric approach isolates and exposes many of the important features of time series techniques, directly adapts to irregular time spacing, and easily accommodates variable statistical weights. Tensor notation provides an ideal formalism for these techniques. It is quite convenient for distinguishing a variety of different vector spaces, and is the most compact notation for all the sums which arise in the analysis."[32]

"[T]he generally invariant line element

${\displaystyle ds^{2}=g_{\mu \nu }dx^{\mu }dx^{\nu }}$

[contains] the spacetime metric tensor ${\displaystyle g_{\mu \nu }(x^{\rho }),\mu ,\nu ,\rho =0,1,2,3,}$ [which] plays a dual role: on the one hand it determines the spacetime geometry, on the other it represents the (ten components of the) gravitational potential, and is thus a dynamical variable."[34]

Electronic computers

Def. "[a] programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media"[35] is called a computer.

A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a finite set of arithmetic or logical operations. Since a sequence of operations can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem.

Programmings

A computer program (also software, or just a program) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer.[36] A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program's instructions in a central processor.[37]

Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.

Probabilities

Def. "a number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening"[38] is called a probability.

Probability is a measure of the expectation that an event will occur or a statement is true. Probabilities are given a value between 0 (will not occur) and 1 (will occur).[39] The higher the probability of an event, the more certain we are that the event will occur.

Statistics

Def. a "mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation"[40] is called statistics.

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.[41][42] It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.[41]

Hypotheses

1. Mathematics can be described with set theory.

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