Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "கணிதம்" in Tamil language version.
Mathematics ... is simply the study of abstract structures, or formal patterns of connectedness.
Calculus is the study of change—how things change, and how quickly they change.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The mathematical study of change, motion, growth or decay is calculus.
[I]t is first necessary to ask what is meant by mathematics in general. Illustrious scholars have debated this matter until they were blue in the face, and yet no consensus has been reached about whether mathematics is a natural science, a branch of the humanities, or an art form.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (help)The science of space, number, quantity, and arrangement, whose methods involve logical reasoning and usually the use of symbolic notation, and which includes geometry, arithmetic, algebra, and analysis.