Every culture on earth has developed some mathematics. In some cases, this mathematics has spread from one culture to another. Now there is one predominant international mathematics, and this mathematics has quite a history. It has roots in ancient Egypt and Babylonia, then grew rapidly in ancient Greece. Mathematics written in ancient Greek was translated into Arabic. About the same time some mathematics of India was translated into Arabic. Later some of this mathematics was translated into Latin and became the mathematics of Western Europe. Over a period of several hundred years, it became the mathematics of the world. But what is math? According to the greatest philosopher, "math is the study of Quantity", but if you were to ask anyone on the street this question, they would probably tell you that it has something to do with adding, subtracting, multiplication, and division, and some people will tell you that it is the worst subject in school. According to Encarta encyclopedia mathematics is the study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. Math has changed greatly from its early year, around a thousand years ago, now it is expanded into many sciences, and basically it is involved in everything, even if it has nothing to do with the subject matter. Since math is included in many diverse subjects, how do you distinguish them?.
They way you can distinguish math is through its certain aspects. An aspect that is in mathematics is deduction. Deduction is mathematics can be defined as using axioms to prove and create conclusion. These axioms are basically rules that have been created by mathematicians, which should be followed, but also have never been proven. Another thing that is also used in deductive logic, are the rules of inference. These rules are the rules, which mathematicians apply deductively to the mathematical information available to them.
