Do you consider math an art?

>>8671865
If you do recreational mathematics, like those people who find weird ways to represent the distribution of primes and then generate pictures and shit, or people who define fractals, etc. Then you are an artist, and a very good one at that. An artistic mathematician.

>>8671865
Deriving mathematical relationships and disproving things in natural sciences are usually elegant and therefore the results of art.

>>8671865
It involves a lot of creativity. But I see it more as exploration rather than creation. Art is about creating something from nothing.

>>8671865
Art. Fart. Art-ificial. Any sci subject without practical benefit is useless.

>>8672984
>sci subject without practical benefit is useless
But it's not so obvious whether something might become useful or not. Some of theoretical math was out there abstract shit at first but got useful in other fields over time.

>>8671865
It is simultaneously the hardest science and the highest art anyone can aspire to.

Yeah. Specifically, I think mathematical writing in proofs, papers, and math books is an art in the same way literature is an art.

Not at all. Calling mathematics an art is just romanticizing it. There is nothing artsy about it.

>>8674372
>t. engineer

>>8674372
You are right they are romanticizing it. It used to be a very Roman pastime...

>>8671865
>Is paint art?
Depends if you paint a wall orange for your contractor or paint to paint