Happy Monday! Today's Math Monday blog assignment is to describe the connection(s) between science and mathematics.
Science and math are closely related, if you couldn't already tell. My dad, who is a math teacher, described them as being like "close cousins". Mostly the relationship between them depends on mathematics being used heavily in science and scientific discoveries.
For example, scientific rules and laws could not have been figured out without the use of basic mathematics. We would not know how many stars, per se, are in the Milky Way galaxy or even how many people are on the earth without the knowledge of massive, never-ending numbers. In this way, humans have used math to extend and advance our understanding and perception of the way the world works, which is what science is.
Carrying out and learning about science and math both require clear, logical thought processes, and neither are abstract. The relationship between them could be likened to that between music and art -- both require creativity and "thinking outside of the box". In the case of science and math, however, we must think outside of the box while staying inside of the box, which is where the challenge people might see in both areas comes in.
The basic map of what people know and continue to discover about the world would be very ineffective and our world very basic without the use of mathematics, and by using examples and concepts, our mathematic knowledge would be very insignificant without scientific applications. In fact, math itself is a science, just like biology, chemistry, or optics. The relations
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