>“Mathematics,” wrote the historian of science Carl Benjamin Boyer many years ago, “is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.” I hav

>“Mathematics,” wrote the historian of science Carl Benjamin Boyer many years ago, “is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.” I have the opinion that Mathematics is a set of axioms, theorems based on those axioms and conjectures. Yes, you follow some algorithms to prove something or to do some calculations, but those algorithms, no matter how interesting, are less important than the results. To me, algorithms belong more to applied Mathematics than pure science, which Math is.