Timeline for Are there any fields of academic mathematics whose epistemic status as math is controversial within the academic community?
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| May 28, 2023 at 21:26 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | @SamHopkins : Part of the claim is that the question of how to model this is arguably philosophy or something like that, rather than mathematics, but is a question that obviously belongs within statistics, so that some things in statistics are not mathematics. And this is far from the only one. | |
| May 28, 2023 at 21:02 | history | edited | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2023 at 20:50 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | I'm not sure quite I understand the intent of this answer. This seems like a specific problem in statistics where there is ongoing academic debate. But is it meant to support the claim that statistics has a different epistemic status than math? Or perhaps that all applied mathematics, where there is legitimate debate about how to model various real-world phenomena that cannot be resolved according to the abstract, logical rules of pure math, has a different status? | |
| S May 28, 2023 at 20:45 | history | answered | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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