is math discovered or invented?

amagitech

What is your opinion

Lost User

Maybe both. One starts out defining things (to see if they are interesting or whatever), but after that you follow the consequences and that's more like discovering.

dan sh

Discovered. Situations have always existed it is just that we stumbled upon it due to some need.

Stefto

Discovered, Noone is sadistic enough to invent this :laugh:

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Lost User

Neither. It is an illusion in your head And it ends with s

Deflinek

What is math? :)

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Johnny J

Heads??? :confused:

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GuyThiebaut

Mathematics or maths, to those of us across the pond.

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Johnny J

Duh![^] :doh: You call yourself a developer? ;)

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Ron Anders

Discovered. All was put here by the One True Living God.

Lost User

Invented. Based on an abstraction we call "numbers".

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Lost User

I think is one of those thingies to be placed in front of your door so that visitors can clean their shoes before entering.

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You mean Munchies[^]? :confused:

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Wastedtalent

Neither. It's a tool used to describe and prove/disprove new theories. (In the same way that language was neither discovered nor invented, but individual languages were invented).

Johnny J

I normally use a hammer... :doh:

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Lost User

Tails. You lose.

HobbyProggy

Ron Anders wrote:

by the One True Living God.

There is no such thing :)

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HobbyProggy

Neither, it developed or evolved, how ever you want to call it. It is in us, starting from basic stuff like hey i eat 1 of my 2 banananas so i got only 1 left. That's math. Some genuises then combined equations and that did the magic to create formulas and theories :)

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dlhale

A lot of it is just made up, like math that "proves" black holes exist. Black Holes exist only in the minds of mathematicians. Even Steven Hawkings is beginning to see the truth.

Lost User

There is, I am it.