Why is math the language of science?

TLDR: Math is the formal description of relationships between things. By itself, math is not a language, but one of the products of math IS a language. Science aspires to be a description of the relationships between physical phenomena that we obs... read more

The language of science is mathematics. This is a concept that links back to Galileo and is the reason why technology works, because the physical world obeys regular mathematical rules independent of any human belief system. read more

Indeed it is this single property of Mathematics which gives it the capacity to predict the nature of evolution in time of the said branch of science. This has been well verified in the domain of physical sciences, but now even biological sciences are slowly feeling its strength, and the list is expanding. read more