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4 Sep 2024 07:18:55 EDT (-0400)
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From: Warp
Date: 10 Jan 2011 07:18:32
Message: <4d2af918@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> So mathematics is not science?
> >
> > No, math is not science.

> I concur with Darren.

> Science is the systematic investigation of the real world. Math is the 
> systematic investigation of abstract systems of axioms of an arbitrary 
> nature.

  Aren't you confusing "science" with "natural sciences"? Natural sciences
study the natural world, but "science" in general can encompass more than
that.

  As for math, would you say that, for example, the branch of mathematics
called geometry studies how the real world works or not?

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                                                          - Warp


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