is math discovered or invented?

[Lost User]

Tails. You lose.

[HobbyProggy]

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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.

[jsc42]

dlhale wrote:

Black Holes exist only in the minds of mathematicians

That means that I am not a mathematician. No black holes exist in my mind; or, if they do, I haven't seen them (should I try using a mirror?).

[Super Lloyd]

you are confused! black hole is physics! math is just a tool about numbers and logic (certainly anything real) used by many people, including physicists....

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You got it! :-D :-\

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[jeron1]

I wonder who discovered hatred?

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[Bilgehan Berberoglu]

You're right :laugh: :laugh:

[Lost User]

Math is a description tool, like a language it is invented.

[peterchen]

According to Plato, discovered. [^]

[peterchen]

Yes, of course - but she still put it there!

[HobbyProggy]

Heretic XD

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[Duncan Edwards Jones]

All human endeavours (language, culture, maths, science) are abstractions and therefore the level of abstraction constitutes invention. Only reality is real.....man. :omg:

[Lost User]

How often did you have him lying flat in front of your door? :)

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Muharrem B. wrote:

What is your opinion

That it is Maths.

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[Marc Clifton]

Both. Marc

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[Duncan Edwards Jones]

..although the question should probably take the past tense.

[W Balboos GHB]

Mathematics must include all of its branches and that would include arithmetic. So say, multiple objects existed and were observed. That, however, doesn't make mathematics a discovery. It is the association of multiple objects as a group, and making that initial "one and one are different than one" ( . . . and we'll so note it . . . ) that is where mathematics begins. This is conceptual - and thus - an invention. Two rocks sitting near one another does not have to be thought of as two rocks. Why not simply "A rock" and "A rock" ? That still works. At the same time, they may not be near - but one could still conceive of them as two items that are in some (conceived!) category and then associated. Our mathematics is a description of observations - and not necessarily the only way one could describe the universe.

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