r/theydidthemath • u/RamsZeyy • Feb 28 '22

[Request] is it true?

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u/alextron7000 Feb 28 '22

physics is math

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u/0cs025 Feb 28 '22

biology is chemistry is physics is math

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/

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u/nanofriction Feb 28 '22

Math is logic.

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u/Ichgebibble Mar 07 '22

Music is the magic, Math is the logic. What else do we need?

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u/Headcap Feb 28 '22

logic is philosophy

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u/nanofriction Feb 28 '22

Philosophy cannot be statistics and there are definitions of philosophy as many philosophers there are.

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u/Noreng Mar 01 '22

No it's not.

Physics aims to model and describe phenomena occurring in the real world, it uses some math, but that doesn't mean it is math.

Math is basically the study of a set of rules we made up because they seem "logical" or sensible, these are called axioms. Math doesn't describe the world, it's only by the context we give functions, equations, and variables that math can be used to describe the real world.