What is mathematics?(From Helen Prochazka's Scrapbook)

Australian Mathematics Teacher | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

The Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) was developed by the American Mathematical Society and Zentralblatt fur Mathematik in Germany. It is used to categorise items covered by the two reviewing databases, Mathematical Reviews (MR) and Zentralblatt Math (Zbl). The MSC is broken down into more than 5000 classifications.

From the MSC comes this definition of mathematics: 

 
   Any attempt to distinguish the parts of mathematics must begin 
   with a decision about what constitutes mathematics in the first 
   place! We try to keep the broad definition here, that mathematics  ...

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