[yarper]

Software engineering can be reduced to math too, for example functional programming is a lambda calculus derivative. I think it's basically just that we're so close to programming that it's hard to see it for what it is, just a bunch of rules and equations.

[kthejoker2]

That's just one facet of software engineering. Large swaths of it cannot be reduced to math ie everything the user actually sees, hears, perceives, etc. Those are subject to psychology, aesthetics, ergonomics ... Although we're trying to quantify those, too, so maybe one day ...