Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section

[Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>]

Hi,

> I think Mathematics is also part of Science.

FWIW, I would argue that mathematics is not a science -- it does not use
the scientific method, there is no hypothesis and experimentation -- it
is a more self-contained discipline that, while it seeks to be useful,
is not bound to modelling the physical world.

Certainly science _uses_ mathematics, in the same way that engineering
uses physics, and so on.  But mathematics as a whole is somewhat broader.

Anyway, I'd be very happy to see Mathematics and Science kept separate
as they are now.  I do claim that mathematics is very different from the
other disciplines that have been mentioned, in a way that physics, chemistry,
biology and so on are not.

b.