What does it mean to apply mathematics? Why is mathematics considered as essential to natural sciences? Why do scientists consider the applicability of mathematics as something mysterious? The ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information American Scientist (ISSN 0003-0996) is an illustrated bimonthly magazine about science and technology. Each issue is filled with ...

OF all the branches of philosophy, logic alone has had the distinction of being claimed by the exact sciences as one of them. The event is of recent occurrence; in fact, it has happened only since ...