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I was blessed with a great Harvard-educated writing teacher in high school who pretty cleanly stated the case that math and science are in fact just different ways of discussing art, our perception of the real world.
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Mari, I found this statement particularly interesting. It rings a bell of something I read long ago and perhaps you, or someone else, can fill in details because my memory has faded. It was along the lines that in the past (I'm not sure how distant), learning was not as segregated as it is now and therefore the student gained a more holistic view of the world and education, and was aware of such things that math and art are different ways of expressing the same thing.
I'd be interested in more information on this subject, how it was in those earlier times and how, why, when it changed.
I suppose this could start to majorly veer off the main subject of this thread, or perhaps it will only be a slight meandering. But, I had to ask.