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"Glenn A. Carlson" wrote:
... I don't consider geometry or algebra to be sciences,
because mathematicians don't use the scientific method.
The last sentence can be challenged by those who believe that
"proving theorems with computers" is an experimental component
of mathematics. And by those who observe how mathematicians
actually work, not how they present the products of their work in
textbooks. I read recently that proofs were often produced after the
discoveries. Numerical and graphical experimentation was always
part of mathematics.