Matthew's Journal

On the other hand, maths has a fundamentally different character from most sciences, in that it's almost exclusively deductive where nearly anything else that gets labelled 'science' is inductive. So it's understandable that people should see it as not obviously the same thing; it all depends on what you think is the most important aspect.

I think one just has to accept that maths is a bit weird, and that if one is trying to categorise academic disciplines then one has to either make a category specially for maths, specify where maths should be filed, or resign oneself to it being filed all over the place :-)