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by eru 4599 days ago
Microeconomics is a science by that definition. Mathematics is not (or not really).
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I don't think mathematics was ever considered a science. See the definition of the 'liberal arts', which includes science and math as separate entities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

Mathematical proofs are falsifiable, and there are a lot of hypotheses, that are not proved yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_m...
> Mathematical proofs are falsifiable

No, they aren't. A mathematical proof is by definition unfalsifiable. If an error is found in a proof (as with Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem), that it isn't a proof ... yet. And mathematical proofs aren't empirical, another requirement for science.

Scientific theories are falsifiable in perpetuity because the possibility always exists for new empirical evidence to show up that falsifies an existing theory. This possibility doesn't exist for mathematical proofs.