/sci/ - Science & Math

["Math has nothing to do with science" No.14841482]

Was i right to get my self permabanned on reddit for calling some fat fck 'merican out for claiming to be a scientist after making the statement that math and science have nothing to do with eachother?

Also, why are community colleges allowed to hand out "science" degrees to people who don't even know what an integral is?

[sage No.14841501]

science needs math, but not the other way around
/thread

[Anonymous No.14841591]

>>14841482
>why are community colleges allowed to hand out "science" degrees to people who don't even know what an integral is?
Because everyone already knows that it's easier to get an Associates' degree than a GED.

[Anonymous No.14841657]

>>14841482
Of course they both use each other, but at it's core he's actually right.
Science is an experimental discipline whereas mathematics an abstract, logical one.
The former is concerned with explaining real world phenomena such as reproduction, time, gravity, bonding etc whereas the latter quite literally has nothing to do with the real world and is completely independent of it

It's why looking back at the katy perry meme is hilarious, all these norms acting smug about a genuinely deep question (although she probably didn't intend it in this way)

[Anonymous No.14841664]

>>14841482
You should ask if you were right in outing yourself as a redditor in /sci/? Please go back.

[Anonymous No.14841677]

>>14841657
>We invented it, as a language to communicate, with great precision, what is going on in the world
unironically the "we discover math" camp is retarded.

[Anonymous No.14841700]

>>14841677
>we invented it
cool, doesn't necessarily mean it's dependent on the real world, much less is interested with its inquiry
>to communicate what is going on in the world
maybe in the 1300s, nowadays some fields of math have absolutely nothing to do with what's going on in the real world, e.g set theory, or completely contradict it outright, e.g topology