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Asked by 982purple26 to Jelili, Noel, Robinson, Shilla, Simon on 15 May 2018.
Question: Is mathematics a science if yes how?
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Jelili Mustapha answered on 15 May 2018:
Yes, mathematics is a science. There are many science subject embedded in mathematics. At later stage of one’s academic career, you will realize that mathematics is in all subject
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Simon Masha answered on 15 May 2018:
Yes, mathematics is a science.
To understand this we need to ask ourselves what is science?
The Oxford dictionary defines science as “The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment” I argue we cannot have science without math.
Math is frequently associated with science and is certainly relied upon by scientists — the pages of any modern biology, chemistry, physics, geology, or psychology books/journal are peppered with calculations, statistics, and graphs. Since mathematics provides the language in which the natural sciences (biology, chemistry and physics) aspire to describe and analyse the universe, there is a natural link between mathematics and the natural sciences.
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Shillah Simiyu answered on 16 May 2018:
Quoting the words of Richard Feymann: “Nature speaks to us in Mathematics”.
Definitely Mathematics is science. It belongs to a group of sciences called Formal/Mathematical Sciences. It is a science in the sense that it is a systematic, formulated, logical, and verifiable knowledge. In fact, Mathematics provides language (or mathematics is the language) for all sciences to explain, analyse and verify the findings. It is in fact called the queen of all sciences.
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