Disciplines and Occupations

Mathematics

The deductive study of shape, quantity, and dependence. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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The deductive study of shape, quantity, and dependence. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)

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  • Mathematic

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12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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the discipline (education, history, etc) only; use MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS or specifics treed under it for numeric concepts including concepts in arithmetic, geometry and calculus

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  1. H01w.548w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Mathematics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008433. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008433
  2. Mathematics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics
  3. Mathematics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395