Do mathematics have applications in society's human interactions, itself, outside of the limited uses to which it is now primarily put, in the domains of science, technology, education, navigation, medicine?
It occurred to me after posting this inquiry that mathematics is so insidiously saturated into everyday life that we fail to recognize it to be such .
For example, social security numbers are math; payroll checks are math; money/debt are math; taxes are math; addresses (home and cyber) are math.
Come to think of it very little in life is not mathematics. But we have failed to recognize, or if recognized, to pursue its broader efficacy in solving society's most pernicious social problems, like income and wealth disparities, poverty, indeed racism, itself!
just a thought....
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
SOCIAL MATHEMATICS
Do mathematics have applications in society's human interactions, itself, outside of the limited uses to which it is now primarily put, in the domains of science, technology, education, navigation, medicine?
It occurred to me after posting this inquiry that mathematics is so insidiously saturated into everyday life that we fail to recognize it to be such .
For example, social security numbers are math; payroll checks are math; money/debt are math; taxes are math; addresses (home and cyber) are math.
Come to think of it very little in life is not mathematics. But we have failed to recognize, or if recognized, to pursue its broader efficacy in solving society's most pernicious social problems, like income and wealth disparities, poverty, indeed racism, itself!
just a thought....