In elementary mathematics, a term is either a single number or variable, or the product of several numbers and/or variables. For example, in
3 + 4x + 5yzw
3, 4x, and 5yzw are all terms. This definition does not cover all usages in more advanced mathematics. Often term is used of a monomial with a coefficient: to 'collect like terms' in a polynomial is the basic operation of making it a linear combination of distinct monomials.
In elementary mathematics, a term is either a single number or variable, or the product of several numbers and/or variables.
Often term is used of a monomial with a coefficient: to 'collect like terms' in a polynomial is the basic operation of making it a linear combination of distinct monomials.
The word "term" is from the Latin terminus "boundary line, limit", from the Indo-European root ter- "peg, post, boundary".
The term foundations is used to refer to the formulation and analysis of the language, axioms, and logical methods on which all of mathematics rests (see logic; symbolic logic).
Nonetheless mathematics is often imagined to be (as far as its formal content) nothing but set theory in some axiomatization, in the sense that every mathematical statement or proof could be cast into formulas within set theory.
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