Is maths a science?

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Re: Is maths a science?

@ghuLail

the sicentific method and thus science got defined much later, than it started floating around…its traditionally used to describe study of physics, chem and bio and medicine, thought there is nothing about the earlier days of western medicine that you could call as ‘scientifically based’!..there is history associated with its usage, newer disciplines get associated with being sicence or not, if they simply define the more recent criteria set by the scientific method, but its difficult to call math a science since its not a recent discipline and since it never got called a science before…if u dig deep into this, and into alternative studies u’ll realise how much of what gets called science and what does not, is just based on whether traditional scientist circles are backing it or not…there is an endless list of alternative studies which keep proving thier mettle in a scientifucally ‘measurable’ way, inspite of the fact that they follow a methodology which is clearly ‘unsiceintic’.

correct me if I’m wrong, but in the last category, do you see fields like social and economical sciences there?