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Originally Posted by xkai Actually political science has quite a bit of math...especially game theory...to the extent that it is considered an applied form of it. The discipline really isn't the study of "politics," it's more of a study of power and the balance and means of attaining it, and predicting the future given current information and models. It's kind of the antithesis of history where you study the past to understand the present...rather you study today to predict tomorrow. |
Are you implying that math is a science? Math is not science. Science involves experimentation. Math does not conduct experiments.
Science typically uses math, but that does not mean that everything that uses math is science.