• Question: Why is maths so important in science?

    Asked by mushu the dragoon on 28 Jan 2020.
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      Fiona Macfarlane answered on 28 Jan 2020:

      Maths is important in lots of ways in Science. We need it to calculate measurements e.g. how much of a drug/treatment to give someone. Maths is also a useful way to predict what will happen in scientific experiments and help us understand them in more detail

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      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 28 Jan 2020:

      Math is important in science because it provides the tools to analyse and model the reality using approximations when needed.

      Without math we won’t be able to build a house because we wont’ be able to evaluate how many forces and perturbations the building has to sustain because we won’t have a way to express everything clearly and neatly so that we can reason with it.

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