Plural Form Of Mathematics

The same is true of scissors pants trousers etc.
Plural form of mathematics. If you were to accept that american english is a deviated form of traditional english then it would be fair to conclude that math is. There are various other words like it including many other words ending in ics such as physics dynamics ethics linguistics metaphysics optics economics. In reference to various types of maths or a collection of maths. According to both the dictionaries mathematics is plural in form but us.
However in more specific contexts the plural form can also be maths e g. Subjects singular plural 1 mathematics 2 physics 3 electronics. Mathematics is a plural. People tend to say mathematics is the is being the singular form of the verb to be as opposed to the plural form which would say mathematics are.
Mathematica is a latin plural noun so mathematics became the english translation of that plural noun. The noun math can be countable or uncountable. The english abbreviation is essentially a reduplicated plural which in my mind is redundant and doesn t make much sense considering how both the english and americans use it that is math is fun maths is fun and not math are fun maths are fun. The plural form of mathematics is also mathematics.
The names of subjects diseases and games are used in singular. It s really that simple. Maths is not a plural for math. The word maths is correct.
In more general commonly used contexts the plural form will also be math. The word mathematics comes from the greek μάθημα máthēma which in the ancient greek language means what one learns what one gets to know hence also study and science and in modern greek just lesson the word máthēma is derived from μανθάνω manthano while the modern greek equivalent is μαθαίνω mathaino both of which. Mathematics originated from the latin mathematica plural from the greek from mathematikos adjective. The oxford english dictionary summarizes the situation for words with this suffix as follows.
The fact that mathematic is not used as a singular is no kind of knock down argument. It seems to me that mathematics is plural in form but used as a singular. Mathematics is as jim reynolds said singular despite being plural in form. So as a rule although the word mathematics is used as a singular it is a plural word and except when able to in specific examples like this one it is correct to keep the plural s in play.