Is math a real science?
Mathematics Lover wrote:
Physics and biology are sciences because they put theories up to
falsifiable tests.
But most of the esoteric math theorems in abstract set, algebra,
geometry, and field
theory have not been tested. Moreover, they cannot be tested. Thus,
they cannot be
scientifically verified or falsified.
Is math, thusly, a pseudo science?
Lunk
Mathematics is definitely not a science, but then it never actually
claimed to have been one. In the end, science always resorts to
empiricism to test it's ideas, whereas all that math requires is that
its statements be internally consistent.
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