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I wouldn't want to say that Math is a science, any more than I would want to say Philosophy is a science, and philosophy underlies science as much as math does. The experimental method seems to be fairly important to a natural science (though maybe I'm just being archaic again), and I've never known Math to use the experimental method. Of course, given what I've written above, it wouldn't hurt my point if math were a natural science.
And who's using an archaic notion of math? I'd be willing to bet that I've taken math classes at least as advanced as anyone else on this board; in fact, since I've taken a graduate level math course, it'd be hard for anyone to have taken a more advanced course. So you might want a little more content in that accusation.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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