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'''Mathematics''' is the rigorous analysis of abstract structures, including numeric and logical systems.  The earliest known beginning of this topic is about 2400 B.C., the date of the oldest extant mathematical tablets.<ref>Davis & Hersh, ''The Mathematical Experience'' xi (Mariner Books 1981)</ref>

'''Mathematics''' is the rigorous analysis of abstract structures, including numeric and logical systems.  The earliest known beginning of this topic is about 2400 B.C.[Citation needed] ( Don't forget the Rhind and Moscow Papyrus), the date of the oldest extant mathematical tablets.<ref>Davis & Hersh, ''The Mathematical Experience'' xi (Mariner Books 1981)</ref>

Mathematics includes many practical results concerning quantity and measure, such as calculations involving numbers, financial accounting, geometric construction of building, astronomical calculations, calendar dating, telling time, engineering, physics, chemistry, etc. but also more abstract issues such as establishing the conditions under which certain kinds of equations and formulas have solutions.

Mathematics includes many practical results concerning quantity and measure, such as calculations involving numbers, financial accounting, geometric construction of building, astronomical calculations, calendar dating, telling time, engineering, physics, chemistry, etc. but also more abstract issues such as establishing the conditions under which certain kinds of equations and formulas have solutions.