Wurzl@lemmy.zip to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoFour Young Mathematicians Receive Prestigious Fields Medalswww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up148
arrow-up148external-linkFour Young Mathematicians Receive Prestigious Fields Medalswww.nytimes.comWurzl@lemmy.zip to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 days agoMath is the purest of the sciences.
minus-squareJake Farm@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-212 days agoMath is an abstraction, a language. That is like saying words are a science and novel use of words are scientific break throughs. Math is also logic, so is philosophy a science?
minus-squareAnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoOther way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge”
Math is the purest of the sciences.
Math is an abstraction, a language. That is like saying words are a science and novel use of words are scientific break throughs. Math is also logic, so is philosophy a science?
Other way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge”