Timeline for Are there any fields of academic mathematics whose epistemic status as math is controversial within the academic community?
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| Jun 13, 2023 at 23:29 | comment | added | Michael Greinecker | Much like mathematical statistics is clearly math, there are things in statistics that are pretty clearly not mathematics. For example, there are statistics papers about what kind of graphs and what color schemes are most easily understood. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 21:02 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @User1865345 Oh well, in some sense, yes, at least for the second part. Whether it’s useful to think it that way is another question… | |
| May 23, 2023 at 15:25 | comment | added | User1865345 | E. Hopf once said: "ergodic theory is statistics and statistics is measure theory." | |
| May 22, 2023 at 17:54 | comment | added | Pablo H | "connecting mathematics to the real world" has "clearly non-mathematical considerations" is insightful for me. That's shared by Statistics, Theoretical Physics, Error Analysis (in Numerical Analysis), ..., Logic?, ... etc. | |
| May 22, 2023 at 17:27 | comment | added | Ben McKay | I encountered a statistician who claims that all of mathematics is a special branch of statistics. I doubt this is a popular view. I have already heard that all of mathematics is a branch of string theory, or a branch of geometric algebra. | |
| May 22, 2023 at 16:49 | comment | added | kjetil b halvorsen | I do think that in some countries i know about statistics would be in a better shape if it was considered mathematics, and such taught in math departments! | |
| S May 22, 2023 at 13:31 | history | answered | Martin Modrák | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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