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It isn't a science. It doesn't delve into natural laws. Quantum computing, like computer science, is mathematics. The applied versions of quantum computing and

It isn't a science. It doesn't delve into natural laws. Quantum computing, like computer science, is mathematics. The applied versions of quantum computing and computer science is engineering. One of my professor's biggest pet peeves was the misnomer "computer science". He always said that he was a mathematician and not a scientist. Turing was a mathematician, not a scientist.

Koshkin 8y ago
Outside the US mathematics is a science. (Because deduction is part of the scientific method.)
- willio58 8y ago
  Even in the US some people including myself consider math to be very similar to if not under the umbrella of science.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Outside the US mathematics is a science. (Because deduction is part of the scientific method.) That's a reason for math to be recognized as an important tool for science (and a certain level of it a prerequisite for certain science work), but lacking an empirical component, it makes no sense to consider it a science.
- porpoisely 8y ago
  Whether math is a science isn't a matter of location. It's a matter of definition. Math is not a science by definition anywhere. Deduction is used in philosophy as well. Doesn't make philosophy or logic a science. And the major underpinning of the scientific method is empirical, not deductive. Can you point to where the scientific method is used in mathematics? It isn't. It's why math has axioms and theorems and proofs while science has hypothesis, theories and empirical tests. How can I empirically test that the square root of 2 is irrational? I can't because math is not a science. And I don't need to because it has been proven that square root of 2 is irrational. In math, once proven, it's always true. In science, theories are true until they've been proven to be false. In science, theories are falsifiable. In math, theorems are not. They are true forever.
- dgellow 8y ago
  That depends mostly on the language, not the location. Different languages have different ways to classify things.

Koshkin 8y ago

Outside the US mathematics is a science. (Because deduction is part of the scientific method.)

willio58 8y ago
Even in the US some people including myself consider math to be very similar to if not under the umbrella of science.
dragonwriter 8y ago
> Outside the US mathematics is a science. (Because deduction is part of the scientific method.) That's a reason for math to be recognized as an important tool for science (and a certain level of it a prerequisite for certain science work), but lacking an empirical component, it makes no sense to consider it a science.
porpoisely 8y ago
Whether math is a science isn't a matter of location. It's a matter of definition. Math is not a science by definition anywhere. Deduction is used in philosophy as well. Doesn't make philosophy or logic a science. And the major underpinning of the scientific method is empirical, not deductive. Can you point to where the scientific method is used in mathematics? It isn't. It's why math has axioms and theorems and proofs while science has hypothesis, theories and empirical tests. How can I empirically test that the square root of 2 is irrational? I can't because math is not a science. And I don't need to because it has been proven that square root of 2 is irrational. In math, once proven, it's always true. In science, theories are true until they've been proven to be false. In science, theories are falsifiable. In math, theorems are not. They are true forever.
dgellow 8y ago
That depends mostly on the language, not the location. Different languages have different ways to classify things.