Timeline for Can we call Mathematics a kind of Art?
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| Aug 26, 2020 at 21:32 | comment | added | Eddie Kal | @Greybeard Well, my comment is pretty much a response to Jack and Patrick's discussion. I don't really have an opinion either way in regard to the OP's question. A gun to my head I'd say "Maybe, if you want to." | |
| Aug 26, 2020 at 21:27 | comment | added | user81561 | @EddieKal That should be an answer rather than a comment. | |
| Aug 26, 2020 at 19:44 | comment | added | Eddie Kal | "The art of something" doesn't have the implication the something is an art. Definition from Lexico/Google: a skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice. "the art of conversation". "The Art of War" does not make a claim that war is art or lead us to think that. Neither does Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. That said I don't think "You don't do math the same way you do art" is a sound argument either. I second your point on prescipritivism/descriptivism | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 10:16 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | Patrick, I suppose then that you take a more prescriptivist view of language. I don't. | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 3:55 | comment | added | Patrick | Jack, apologies if I misread your post. Though, personally I do not agree that because some do call it an art we can call it an art. The point of this exchange is to be correct. The majority of the world and of the United States are less than well educated. By definition, half are below average intelligence. I grew up saying “dis” and “dat” and “wursh” rather than “this”, “that”, and “wash” because I grew up in a poor rural area. That does not make those things correct. Yes, I suppose we CAN say things that are not correct, but in this exchange I think “can” is taken as “it is acceptable”. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 12:25 | comment | added | Jack O'Flaherty | Patrick, I didn't say it was an art. I said you can call it an art, and that is evident because many people do call it an art, and their books haven't been banned. I think you have misunderstood my post. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 6:51 | comment | added | Patrick | Jack, I disagree. Even the quote you provided states “Its is not an art”. Can someone apply the scientific laws of math to a new problem, i a way that is creative and therefore artistic? Of course and hopefully. But the discipline itself is not an art. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 5:23 | history | answered | Jack O'Flaherty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |