Mathematics
is the language in which the Book of Nature is written. Mathematics is the Queen
of the Sciences.It is universally agreed that Mathematics is the backbone of
Science and Technology. For without Mathematics, the engineer is but an artist
or a sculptor. He can build his bridge, attest to its form and beauty, but
without Mathematics he cannot guarantee its reliability to serve the purpose
for which it is built. 
Mathematics
is indeed the science of sciences. It is also art of all arts. It is right,
legitimate and defensible to consider Mathematics as an Art. The poet, the
musician, the artist and the mathematician have a lot in common. Fundamental to
all their studies and works is their common interest in the logical study of
related concepts and objects form patterns which will produce beauty, harmony
and order.
Thus
the poet arranges words to produce a pattern called poetry: the musician
arranges sounds to produce a pattern called music, the artist arranges colours
to produce pattern called painting, and the mathematician arranges abstract
ideas into a pattern, using symbols to produce equations.
Each of these patterns –the peom, the music, the painting and the equation must
stand up to the test of some order, harmony and beauty. So if Mathematics is
not an art, what is art?
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