Timeline for Does "Science" encompass Mathematics?
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| Jun 20, 2016 at 19:55 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | Related question on HSM: hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/54/…. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 18:30 | comment | added | eggyal | @DanRomik: FWIW, The Queen would have held a passport prior to ascending the throne ("All other members of the Royal Family, including The Duke of Edinburgh and The Prince of Wales, have passports.")—and that document would have stated something under "citizenship"... | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | davidbak | Or maybe "mathematics" encompasses "science". | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 16:38 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | If one defines "science" as a process to understand the physical world through experimentation, which is a reasonable definition, then mathematics would not apply, since pure mathematics is not a study of the physical world and does not involve experimentation. The "scientific method" is not used in mathematics. Many things in mathematics are called "discoveries", the same way scientific concepts are called "discoveries", but they are not arrived at in the same way. There's a good case to be made for math being its own thing, since it's not merely a language either. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 15:36 | comment | added | A E | Depends who are the 'people' who 'say STEM' and the context within which they say it. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 15:30 | comment | added | The Nate | What definition of science do you want to use? | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 14:17 | comment | added | TheLethalCoder | I would say Mathematics is the language in which science can be expressed, I got this from an old lecturer that used to say 'Mathematics is the language of Physics'. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 11:54 | vote | accept | Nobody | ||
| Jun 20, 2016 at 3:09 | comment | added | user2338816 | Is the question very different from "Does science encompass English (or other language)?" But both questions might need to be differentiated from the study of math/English, which can be scientific. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 2:24 | comment | added | JeffE | Does science include mathematics for what purpose? If you're asking about funding by the US National Science Foundation, then yes. If you're asking about potential customers for your scientific lab-equipment catalog, then no. | |
| Jun 20, 2016 at 1:09 | history | protected | ff524 | ||
| Jun 20, 2016 at 0:25 | answer | added | Mike Ounsworth | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 23:59 | comment | added | David says Reinstate Monica | Relevant XKCD | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 22:19 | comment | added | Kimball | @DanRomik I think questions aren't considered duplicates just becase they have been asked on other SE sites. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 20:55 | answer | added | Thorsten S. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 20:28 | answer | added | Laurent Duval | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 19:28 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @DanielR.Collins: Given that Gauß was German and I can find German versions of that quote (implying that the English version may be a translation), you should take into account that the German term Wissenschaft commonly encompasses pretty much everything that can be researched, not just "natural sciences". In fact, that difference in meaning between Wissenschaft and science was what the original question this question was motivated by was about. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 19:03 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 19, 2016 at 18:50 | answer | added | user14717 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 18:36 | comment | added | Quora Feans | @DanielR.Collins: how can a queen have another (sub-)queen? That's as if there were a queen for the UK and another for Birmingham. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 18:27 | answer | added | NietzscheanAI | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 18:09 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Actually, if we follow history's lesson, the most common way to become "queen of sciences" is invading sciences with your troops, destroying them militarily and forcing them to surrender. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 17:26 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | IMO, the response to Daniel's quotation is: yes, that's what someone who was one of the world's leading mathematicians and one of the world's leading scientists said over 150 years ago. So it's certainly interesting, but the question pertains to today. The fact that today there is no one who is viewed as a preeminent expert in science as a whole and no one who is at the top of a handful of academic disciplines (e.g. astronomy, geodesy, mathematics, physics, statistics) also seems relevant to the question. The academic landscape is much different now than in Gauss's day. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 17:24 | comment | added | Bitwise | Some additional ideas: math.stackexchange.com/questions/287701/… | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 17:12 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @FedericoPoloni beat me to it, but actually she is Australian (as the monarch she is "the embodiment of Australia" or some such nonsense), she is just not an Australian citizen. The legal and philosophical discussions on this question remind me of the question about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. They are about equally logical and clear, and concern an equally useless question. Same for the current question about math and science, btw. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 17:08 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @DanielR.Collins interestingly, Elizabeth II is queen of 16 countries but is apparently not legally a citizen of any of them (see here). So being queen of the sciences is perhaps not proof of being a science... | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 17:08 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @DanielR.Collins Sure, but, for instance, the queen of Australia isn't Australian. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 16:54 | comment | added | Dan Romik | This question is a duplicate of a duplicate: math.stackexchange.com/q/288935. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 16:39 | answer | added | Christian | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 16:00 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | "Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics" -- Gauss. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 16:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/744560499061366784 | ||
| Jun 19, 2016 at 15:31 | answer | added | Anonymous Mathematician | timeline score: 36 | |
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