▲ 43 ▼ Four Young Mathematicians Receive Prestigious Fields Medals (www.nytimes.com) submitted 1 day ago by Wurzl@lemmy.zip to c/science@lemmy.world 19 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 21 hours ago (1 child) Math is the purest of the sciences. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz -6 points 19 hours ago* (1 child) 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 11 hours ago Other way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge” permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz -6 points 19 hours ago* (1 child) 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? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 11 hours ago Other way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge” permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 11 hours ago Other way around. All sciences are philosophy: the “love of knowledge” permalink fedilink source parent