XDG Standard: Is Math a Science

Malcolm Tredinnick malcolm at commsecure.com.au
Thu Feb 12 08:41:53 EET 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:33, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:15, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Guido Draheim wrote:
> > 
> > <SNIP>
> > 
> > > Well, it seems that history has moved on a bit. However, when I look at
> > > todays universities I see that there are lots of divisions named
> > > "mathematic & scientific". They come in that grouping for their relation
> > > in mere real life usage, I guess. But perhaps James will disagree on
> > > that ... .
> > 
> > No, I think that was what I said, that we refer to Math *and* Science.  If
> > Math were a Science, that would be redundant.
> 
> It's time to move on now. Your original assertion was that maths should
> have a "relates to" entry for science.

Typo. Or rather "should not have a "relates to" entry for science".

Malcolm






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