The reason is so simple, it is often ignored: IT FEELS GOOD! Well, until it doesnât â more on that later. Regardless of the Type of addiction (Substance, Process, Systemic or Codependency), certain chemicals get stimulated and released in the brain. These chemicals are what make us feel good and feed the addiction.
Haskell Curry defined mathematics simply as the science of formal systems. A formal system is a set of symbols, or tokens, and some rules telling how the tokens may be combined into formulas. In formal systems, the word axiom has a special meaning, different from the ordinary meaning of a self-evident truth.
Update: I don't dispute the use of mathematics. But I also don't think that it's enough to declare mathematics a science merely because science requires mathematics. Science requires instrumentation, but it would be a little awkward to point at some instrumentation (such as a thermometer) and declaring,... show more I don't dispute the use of mathematics.