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Originally Posted by Botnst
If math is to science and language is to literature then would you say language is the same as literature? Of course not! In a similar fashion, mathematics is used to communicate some scientific results. Math is not a scientific result.
There isn't a way that I can think of to rebut a thought that isn't first posed as a falsifiable hypothesis.
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On the second part, if that's how you want to limit the word, that's up to you. I've heard 'rebut' used more flexibly.
Who said that the saying "math is the language of science" is etched in stone? Do biology and botany use math to any degree? Not sure why you want to diss mathematics and mathematicians here.
Economics -- is that a science? Modern economics would be far poorer w/o linear algebra, which makes possible complex models with dozens of variables, each one affecting the manner in which the others will act upon the whole. I can only imagine the discoverer of that had to experiment plenty on paper to make sure it worked accurately.
Physics and math are intertwined in a big way. Math is more than the language of physics, it's an integral part of it. I guess you could say math is a tool of these two, as well as astronomy, but even that seems simplistic to me.
How much math have you gotten into? Have you ever seen the method by which calculus is proven, which essentially lays out the steps of its discovery? It's a thing of beauty, I'm telling you.
Complicated mathematical proofs require all sorts of mental experimentation. I've about tied my brain in knots trying to apply reglar ol' Euclidean geometry to 3 dimensional problems. Doesn't sound like it would be that tough but it is.
Then I read somewhere about the complexity of that. Didn't feel so bad afterwards.
I dunno, call it a discipline if you wish but it's far more than just a ***** of other sciences.