wendylove, yes mathematics is a science. Theory of numbers? Science. Geometry? Science. Illogical numbers? Science.
Well, calling something a science does not make it a science. See, numbers are a invention, it is made up. You know the number line is a invention to make science work easier and geometry was invented to help ballistics.
Yes Mathematics might seem easy and completely logical, but you certainly think that because you haven't taken maths at college. You'd see what real mathematics is about.
I assure you I am not ignorant of maths. I know mathematics is not arithmatic and I know mathematics is not manipulating equations.
I suggesting spooking into some regional math olimpics. The way you have to prove the weirdest things is not human. Mathematical science is about usign know properties to discover new ones, and then use the new properties to discover yet new ones.
Mathematics is not Popper. When you have proven something it cannot be disproven, ever. That means individual no math result is falsifiable. See once you proven something it cannot be disproven, this means it is a absolute. Their is no absolutes in science. And even worse even if you get lots of evidence you cannot say it true mathematically, look a twin prime. The twin prime is believed to be true, however it is still not taken as true, even if scientifically it would be classed as true.
Either way, it is considered a science in the academic world. You will not find anyone studying math under a liberal arts department. So it is categorised.
Well, if the mathematics was applied to liberal arts then maybe it would be in that department. Again, mathematics is a langauge used in science, their fore it will be in the science area. Plus if you believe G.H. Hardy then it is a art.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Again, mathmatics is a language. It is logical, however it is not empirical.
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