From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!tekid!davido Newsgroups: net.math Title: Re: A "definition" of mathematics Article-I.D.: tekid.12 Posted: Thu May 13 08:08:28 1982 Received: Fri May 14 03:53:42 1982 I think we need to be a bit more precise in our use of the word "science". It can be defined quite nicely as an activity involving the scientific method, i.e. a discipline in which the scientist formulates an hypothesis and then works hard to disprove that hypothesis. (How much of "Computer Science" is *really* science?)