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RealAlHazred

Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
The term "maths" is left over from the time of Isaac Newton, when they worked under the theory that each bit of math was a discrete thing, so you could have multiple maths.
But today, we understand better that math is better described as a substance than a collection of discrete objects.
This leaves the pluralized form left for speaking about large amounts of math. Like you could speak of the water of the ocean, or the waters of the ocean - they mean the same thing, but one is more poetic than the other
It's interesting trying to parse the English sentence, "I studied maths and sciences," correctly for intent.
 


darjr

I crit!
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