Is there any science to mathematics?
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Conformist
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No. I believe Mathematics is the language of science.
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mathematics is a science. It is one of the few sciences where Laws abound, because of the certainties involved.
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Mathematics is the foundation of science, not science itself. Mathematics is unique in that it finds its proof in itself. Not being founded in the real world, mathematics is not "Right" or "Wrong", is is merely "Useful" or "Not Useful". Science definitely is based in the real world - science is based on observation and experiment, both repeated many times. Science can be "Right" if it accurately describes and predicts the real world, and "Wrong" if it does not. Some parts of mathematics accurately describe the real world, and are therefore "Useful". Others do not describe anything we have found yet, and are therefore "Not Useful" - which does not stop them being interesting, and potentially useful in the future.
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Yes, in the broadest meaning of the term. Science seeks to provide an accurate description of the physical universe. For a natural scientist, this involves forming a hypothesis and then testing it, discarding any hypothesis that does not fit the evidence, always refining their conclusions. Mathematics seeks to formulate proofs (evidence) of various theorem to reach conclusions that must be shown to always be true. Mathematicians form a hypothesis, test it, discard any hypothesis that does not fit the evidence, just as any scientist.
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Well the subject of physics applies to mathematics.
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I heard a College Professor say that Math is "The Language of Science". If that's the case, I am a Science Analphabet. I am allergic to numbers.
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Mathematics is science.
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Math isn't science. At its root, science is finding models for real processes, and testing them with experiments. A key difference, is that a valid answerable math question always has one single answer, the same every time.
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Maths is (almost) deductive. All science is inductive. Not to say you don't use induction in maths but the beauty is that you know the system is uniform so induction works, unlike in science where you assume the system is uniform. I think of maths as more of a language than a science. Just a formal method of manipulating symbols.
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