means The systematic study of numbers, quantities, shapes, patterns, and the logical relationships between them.

from From the Greek 'mathēmatikē,' the feminine of 'mathēmatikos' meaning 'fond of learning' or 'disposed to learning,' which itself grows from 'mathēma' — 'that which is learned, a lesson, knowledge.' At its root sits the verb 'manthanein,' 'to learn.' So the word originally meant something closer to 'the things worth learning' before the Greeks narrowed it to the discipline of number and form. It reached English through Latin 'mathematica' and Old French, arriving as the plural-looking 'mathematics' — a shape it likely borrowed from other scholarly fields like 'physics' and 'economics.'