CH 6: Gratuitous Mathematical Hype
It can become confusing in this hyper-speed, information-overload world of ours to make heads and tails of science and in particular how everything in science is related to one another. In order to assuage this confusion, consider the following visual approach to clarify science. A tree represents all of science, where the trunk is math, and its largest branch is physics, its largest branch off that is chemistry, then biology, and finally psychology.
Now, physics is the science of using math to explain the world around us and therefore physics is really applied math. While there will forever exist some degree of dispute over which majors in college are the most challenging and difficult, an important point to remember is simply that the most pure and pervasive science is mathematics.
You could also replace the tree metaphor with a series of ever smaller concentric circles, with math being the outermost circle. Here also is a faux inequality: Math > Physics > Chemistry > Biology > Psychology.
