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Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi, sakshisharda on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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Edward Hughes answered on 23 Jun 2014:
Because maths allows you to make precise predictions! Without maths, you can’t exactly check how closely your model fits reality. But once you’ve got a mathematical model, you can get an exact figure for how good it is.
In a way then, maths is the language of science. So if there’s advances in maths, ones in science soon follow. That’s why it’s really important that we have people researching pure maths problems, even if we can’t see how they directly affect things at the time!
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Naomi Osborne answered on 23 Jun 2014:
As well as using numbers to making predictions, using maths is how you show how significant a correlation is…..maths helps prove and disprove scientific results. Without out it, scientific results wouldn’t be accurate and would be biased.
I wasn’t great at maths though….you don’t have to be a mathematics whiz to be a scientist 🙂
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Ian Stephenson answered on 23 Jun 2014:
Maths is about numbers, and numbers are about quantifying things – measuring them.
Science wouldn’t be much use if we said things like when a car accelerates kind fast, after a few seconds it will he going at some speed.
putting numbers into that turns it into something useful.
Numbers let you make sense of the world, and maths lets you makes sense of numbers.
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katy8888 commented on :
Thanks