Is math a science or is it?

Question

that there just related.

Answer 1

YES. it is a science.

With logic (some people consider it as part of math),

they are the foundation of all sciences.

Answer 2

A famous mathematician, I forgot who, called math the "Queen and servant of science".

Answer 3

In basically every scientific formula and theory, math is involved.

Answer 4

What a great question!

I don't think math is a science.  

Math is a tool used by science.

Math could exist without science.

It just turns out that math seems to be the best way to

represent our universe and everything in it.

Answer 5

it is a foreign language

Answer 6

Math differs from most sciences in that it does not study the empirical.  Mathematical truths are derived from axioms (a base set of rules) and deductive logic, and they are not discovered in the real world.  Mathematicians generally do not prove theories about prime number distributions or the symmetries of higher-dimensional space by running experiments; instead, they try to build deductive arguments from other established truths.

It is true that math is used heavily in sciences, but it is usually used as a tool to work out relationships between entities that were discovered empirically.  When someone comes up with a new mathematical object, we do not immediately agree that it must have a physical existence in the universe, although it may later turn out that it does.  In math, the only accepted proof is a chain of logical arguments; in science, we often accept ideas that we can't even properly explain mathematically because we can test their truth in the laboratory or through a telescope.

The above paragraphs are, of course, simplifications, and I'm sure that people can come up with multiple exceptions.

Answer 7

Science is the an ever changing study of just about everything.

Therefore, math is a science and they are related through formulas and figures.