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| Maths or mathematics is the systematic body of knowledge, built upon fundamental axioms, that concerns itself with numbers and spatial relationships. An understanding of numbers, or arithmetic, is a key part of a child's Education. The History of maths goes back to ancient times, when items were first counted using notches on sticks. Astronomy was a crucial driving force behind its development, with geometry being invented in ancient Greece, algebra in the Arabic world and calculus by Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Maths is now of critical importance in Finance, Engineering, Physics and Computers. | ||||||||||||||