higher mathematics


noun
  1. the advanced portions of mathematics, customarily considered as embracing all beyond ordinary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and trigonometry.

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How to use higher mathematics in a sentence

  • He early developed a taste for higher mathematics, but circumstances decided him in adopting medicine as his profession.

  • He branched from these into higher mathematics, until he could stump his instructor on the fourth dimension.

    Mountain | Clement Wood
  • Why is it that higher mathematics seems to freeze a body's soul and turn one into an early Puritan?

  • One cannot arouse enthusiasm in a six-year-old child over the beauties of higher mathematics.

    The Science of Human Nature | William Henry Pyle
  • After the first two years he took less higher mathematics and more natural history, chemistry, and geology.

    The Harris-Ingram Experiment | Charles E. Bolton

British Dictionary definitions for higher mathematics

higher mathematics

noun
  1. (functioning as singular) abstract mathematics, including number theory and topology, that is more advanced than basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry

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