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[[Image:Leonhard Euler.jpg|right|thumb|225px|[[Leonhard Euler]] ]]
[[Image:Leonhard Euler.jpg|right|thumb|225px|[[Leonhard Euler]] was an 18th-century mathematician and one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time. ]]
'''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., the date of the oldest extant mathematical tablets.<ref>Davis & Hersh, ''The Mathematical Experience'' xi (Mariner Books 1981)</ref>