The Numerical Mathematics Consortium (NMC) is a group of vendors and technical professionals working to standardize a set of core numerical mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

. The Numerical Mathematics Consortium is committed to numerical algorithm

Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning...

 development through open mathematical semantics standardization. The group focuses on core mathematical definitions, algorithm interchangeability, and function semantics. It does not focus on standardizing syntax

Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....

 for a particular mathematical language.