Excerpt from Problems of Modern Science: A Series of Lectures Delivered at King's College
A Course of lectures on the Problems of Modern Science, designed on the present lines, may well raise the question of the exact position which the problems of Mathematics should occupy. Is Mathematics to be regarded as an Art or a Science? This old question has never been solved by any individual or corporate body, and for the sufficient reason, perhaps, that Mathematics is neither Art nor Science exclusively. Our University shelves the question entirely by placing the subject in three distinct Faculties - Arts, Science, and Engineering - this is perhaps the solution, and not a mere shelving. For it is necessary to realise that the subject is not like, for instance, any other scientific subject - it is a class of subjects of very different types, connected only by the one dominating characteristic of being logical accounts of some set of conceptions or of phenomena which can be stated in quantitative, and not merely general or qualitative terms.
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