Mathematics : The Language of Science

TL;DR

Mathematics serves as a foundational language across sciences, enabling quantification, structure, and prediction, with its influence expanding from physical to biological sciences.

Contribution

This essay highlights the evolving role of mathematics in providing structure and predictive power to diverse scientific disciplines, including biology.

Findings

Mathematics underpins the structure of physical and economic sciences.

Quantification through mathematics enhances scientific predictability.

Biological sciences are increasingly adopting mathematical frameworks.

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to bring out the unique role of Mathematics in providing a base to the diverse sciences which conform to its rigid structure. Of these the physical and economic sciences are so intimately linked with mathematics, that they have become almost a part of its structure under the generic title of Applied Mathematics. But with the progress of time, more and more branches of Science are getting quantified and coming under its ambit. And once a branch of science gets articulated into a mathematical structure, the process goes beyond mere classification and arrangement, and becomes eligible as a candidate for enjoying its predictive powers! 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.