thats a great question, technically speaking you could say yes, because time is a repeating pattern, thus bringing in math. i say yes

I would say that mathematics alone cannot predict the future. Applied mathematics, such as in physics, can allow us to make very good predictions as to what will happen in certain situations. The trajectory of a falling object etc. This in and of itself is hardly predicting the future though. It is more like making an educated guess. In order for this process to be accurate at all you need to know a lot of information about the system to begin with anyway.

1) "If you listen to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and a lot of people don’t, he’ll claim that mathematics can tell you the future. In fact, the professor says that a computer model he built and has perfected over the last 25 years can predict the outcome of virtually any international conflict, provided the basic input is accurate. What’s more, his predictions are alarmingly specific. His fans include at least one current presidential hopeful, a gaggle of Fortune 500 companies, the CIA, and the Department of Defense. Naturally, there is also no shortage of people less fond of his work. “Some people think Bruce is the most brilliant foreign policy analyst there is,” says one colleague. “Others think he’s a quack.”" Source and further information: http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/the_new_nostradamus 2) "There are a number of mathematical techniques which can be used to predict future patterns and the GCSE maths syllabus contains some of these ideas, including scatter graphs, time series graphs and difference method number patterns. The 18th Century mathematician Joseph Fourier created techniques which produce greater accuracy in the prediction of pattern. One of the methods used in business today to predict future fluctuations in sales is called The Fast Fourier Transform, in honour of Fourier’s work. For example, taking house price data over the last few months and applying one of these maths techniques could help to find the likely house price cost in one months’ time. It is also said that when times are hard gold prices rise, as gold is traditionally seen as a safe commodity to invest in." Source and further information: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/top-class/dr-maths/2008/06/12/can-maths-predict-whether-we-ll-have-a-recession-72703-21096957/ 3) "Computational Fluid Dynamics (or CFD) is widely used to help predict the weather" "Predict the future to make money - that's what Ernie Chow does for an investment funds manager. His skill in developing differential equations to model future trends in the stock market, along with his ability to solve those same equations means he can predict the future. Or at least do it as well as science will currently allow." Source and further information: http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/careers/careers.html 4) " I can’t give an exact answer to this question but I can say that there are some ways to find almost all the parameters involved in a system, (the word almost is because we can’t see everything and there might be something we forget or don’t have the understanding of). Having the involved parameters we can draw a diagram for the previous status of the system we are studying (such as the stock market, rivers water, daily rain, oil price and etc.) in my next article I am going to describe how we can start modeling systems and simulate them to see if they are predictable or not." Source and further information: http://www.scienceray.com/Philosophy-of-Science/Can-We-Predict-Future-Using-Mathematics.366451 Further information: - "Predicting the Future is a Reality - Using Mathematics and the Moon": http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=79200

3-3-09 + 0-1-00= 3-4-09 Tomorrow be the 4th yo. TADA!!

Ha! We debated this! (sorry, my acct is not confirmed so i can't leave comments)

It can give people great ideas for how a design can work out in engineering.