Why Math is an Art, Not a Science

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Mathematics is usually classed with the sciences, both in official catalogs and in the popular imagination. People who are good at science are usually good at math, but the two subjects are very different in many ways. Math is, in some ways, more like one of the arts than one of the sciences, but it’s really sui generis. But pretty much no one classifies math with the arts, so, in this essay, I contrast math and the sciences…