Liberal arts in a broad sense refers to the study of human social politics, economy and culture, also known as humanities and social sciences. In a narrow sense, liberal arts refers to the subjects selected by the liberal arts branch of senior high school. Liberal arts, also known as humanities and social sciences, is a discipline that studies the politics, economy and culture of human society and is divided into humanities and social sciences.
Social science studies social development, social problems and social laws, which is the general name of four disciplines: law, education, economics and management. * * * There are 19 disciplines (first-class disciplines) and 120 majors (two disciplines) in the undergraduate catalogue. In 2004, there were 597 universities offering social science undergraduate majors.
Humanities takes human cultural heritage as the research object, and its classic disciplines are literature, history, philosophy, art and human geography; Historiography is a subject that studies the development process of human history itself through historical materials. "Philosophy and art" pay attention to methods, and contemporary aesthetics and art belong to the category of "philosophy and art".
Mathematics is a universal means for human beings to strictly describe and deduce the abstract structure and mode of things, and can be applied to any problem in the real world. All mathematical objects are artificially defined in essence. In this sense, mathematics belongs to formal science, not natural science. Different mathematicians and philosophers have a series of views on the exact scope and definition of mathematics.
History of mathematics development:
Mathematics (hanyu pinyin: shùXué；; ; Greek: μ α θ η μ α κ; English: mathematics or maths), whose English comes from the ancient Greek word μθξμα(máthēma), has the meaning of learning, learning and science. Ancient Greek scholars regarded it as the starting point of philosophy and the "foundation of learning". In addition, there is a narrow and technical meaning-"mathematical research".
Even in its etymology, its adjective meaning is used to refer to mathematics whenever it is related to learning. In ancient China, mathematics was called arithmetic, also called arithmetic, and finally it was changed to mathematics. Arithmetic in ancient China was one of the six arts (called "number" in the six arts).