581: mathematics Jul 11, 2016

'Mathematics' has a very specific meaning to most people now, and even the word may bring up ideas about numbers and other abstract symbols. The word did not have such a specific meaning in the past. Not only were all doctors considered the same, that is to say doctors of medicine and doctors of philosophy did not have such distinctions like they do today, but the word, 'mathematics' comes from the Latin "(ars) mathematica" meaning "mathematical (art)," which from Greek 'mathēmatikē (tekhnē)", from the root, 'manthanein' meaning ‘learn’ which was applied to many other fields.