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CA>>>> All 'math' is not really math. Mathematics is the only
CA>>>> pure science with all others being based on estimates
CA>>>> and 'best guess'. I am just guessing that what the PBS
CA>>>> program was referring to was calculus and that is not
CA>>>> technically 'math'. 

PR>>> Actually it was more about topology 

CA>> As I had said in the deleted portion of my reply, I did
CA>> not see the PBS program but was making an educated guess
CA>> as to what they were covering. 'Topology' would be even
CA>> less of an exact 'science' and less mathematical in the
CA>> pure sense. 

JB> so it's closer to set theory than arithmetic it's still
JB> mathematics, an exact science, there's still no room for
JB> interpretation. 

I disagree. 

CA>> Topology is sometimes referred to popularly as
CA>> "rubber-sheet geometry" because a figure can be changed to
CA>> that of an equivalent figure by bending, stretching,
CA>> twisting, and the like, but not by tearing or cutting." 

JB> so distance and shape aren't at issue... topology deals
JB> with issues whare those quantities are unimportant. 

In pure math there _are_ no quantities that are unimportant.
It's a 'best guess' if it's anything at all. 

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