![]() ![]() For example, Saint Augustine's warning that Christians should beware of mathematici, meaning astrologers, is sometimes mistranslated as a condemnation of mathematicians. This has resulted in several mistranslations. In Latin, and in English until around 1700, the term mathematics more commonly meant " astrology" (or sometimes " astronomy") rather than "mathematics" the meaning gradually changed to its present one from about 1500 to 1800. Similarly, one of the two main schools of thought in Pythagoreanism was known as the mathēmatikoi (μαθηματικοί)-which at the time meant "learners" rather than "mathematicians" in the modern sense. Its adjective is mathēmatikós ( μαθηματικός), meaning "related to learning" or "studious," which likewise further came to mean "mathematical." In particular, mathēmatikḗ tékhnē ( μαθηματικὴ τέχνη Latin: ars mathematica) meant "the mathematical art." The word for "mathematics" came to have the narrower and more technical meaning "mathematical study" even in Classical times. The word mathematics comes from Ancient Greek máthēma ( μάθημα), meaning "that which is learnt," "what one gets to know," hence also "study" and "science".
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