Is math the antonym of creativity?

Question

For example, one is simply following established rules when doing math.

Answer 1

Not at all. There are 'rules' (of one sort or another) in every form of artistic expression. In math they're more like the rules in a chess game. But that certainly doesn't prevent you from developing new and creative strategies in chess.
Same in math. Sure, there are 'rules' but they're just the logical consequences of basic principles and definitions. Actually, they're not even so much 'rules' as they are 'tools'. And some of the most difficult math problems require that they be applied in some very creative ways.

Doug

Answer 2

Yes and no. If someone strictly follows the rules of mathematics, that someone is better of being replaced by a computer. Creativity is thinking outside the box in a way no math equation nor computer can express. Math is simply there to support the ideas from man's creativity.

Answer 3

The only antonym of creative, which is the adjectival form of creativity, is uncreative, so we can infer from this that creativity's antonym is also the negation of itself.

So we can eliminate math as the antonym of creativity.

However, in the context of established rules whereby math operates when creativity does not, it appears that creativity (art) and math (science) are mutually exclusive or complete opposites. In that sense, they may be antonyms of each other.

Answer 4

No it is'nt.
Mathematics is creative too. And Art has rules too.
Creativity lies in how the rules are used to your advantage and in making new rules; and in art, which rules you choose to break is interesting.

Answer 5

Try telling the world that Einstein was not creative.