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Is math a science? My CS education was largely math classes. Algorithms are definitely math.
by _wldu 5y ago
Is math a science? My CS education was largely math classes. Algorithms are definitely math.
- weaksauce 5y agoI would say no. STEM is science, technology, engineering, math. compsci is a math degree.
- _wldu 5y agoMaybe math is a tool/framework used by scientists? Physics is another example that is largely math.
- nicky0 5y agoMath is both a philosophical enquiry (pure math) and a tool (applied math & statistics). Physics as a science uses math as a modelling and analysis tool.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoI've always parsed mathematics more as a language than a science, because it's not necessarily empirical.
- nicky0 5y agoPerhaps as a language combined with rules to operate upon that language, transforming true statements into other true statements.
- phone8675309 5y agoPhysics : Engineering :: Computer Science : Software Engineering
- mbrudd 5y agoPursuing this question is quite the rabbit hole, but doing research in mathematics makes me believe that math is a science: you have questions, you collect evidence by exploring examples (i.e., conducting experiments), and you formulate hypotheses as conjectures. If you're lucky, your conjectures are correct and you prove them! Proofs are even better than the accumulated evidence on which theories in other sciences depend, in that proven theorems are immune to falsifiability within the axiomatic system in use.