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The history of science and math are interrelated. The people who shaped science are also important in mathematics. As in science, the early history of mathematics is sketchy. We know that the lunar and solar cycles were counted by the Babylonians and Egyptians in an organized fashion.
Confidence votes 77.7K. If an investigator said that mathematics is the backbone of physics, there would arise little argument. Physics is the study of matter and motion. (Energy, too.) That's a broad statement, but physics is a broad area. And mathematics is used in most all corners of it. When we apply scientific method to the physical world, we qualify or define things, then we quantify or measure them.