1530 wood cut depicting mathematics playing a decisive part in the further development of many professions and sciences. Mathematics is the body of knowledge concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change, and also the academic discipline that studies them. Mathematicians seek out patterns in numbers, space, science, computers, imaginary abstractions, and elsewhere. It is used in virtually every profession or endeavor, and is one of the chief means used to describe the phenomena and functioning of the material world. Mathematics has no generally accepted definition.