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Originally Posted by Trezker  It's a science that doesn't observe nature in any way, and when it's applied to natural problems it can only represent perfect cases that in nature is almost non existent. It's useful for a lot of things but you still can't blindy apply math without making adjustments for natural deviations. |
That's not really true. If it were, no one would use mathematics at all, but it's an integral part of just about every science in the book. The "adjustments" you speak of are all, well, mathematically based. Add an unknown constant to this integration, or throw in a margin of error to the poll there, it's still math.
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Originally Posted by Trezker Math is a purely abstract science created from some basic rules. It's the only science where anything can be proven. |
"anything can be proven" contradicts with "basic rules". You cannot prove that 0 = 1, for instance. (Though there are some interesting and subtle tricks in just about every branch of mathematics to do it anyways. Almost all of them involve dividing by zero, which is illegal precisely because it proves 0 = 1.)
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Originally Posted by Trezker I haven't heard any stories about math that's exiting. Math is about developing tools. The guys who develop hammers don't have stories as good as the people building houses. |
Which is why math scares so many people. It's inhuman. (My current sideline hobby is figuring out a way to fix this.)
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