/sci/ - Science & Math

Can we have a "is maths created or discovered" discussion? My opinion is that it is absolutely created by humans. My reasoning for this is practical; once I stopped thinking that maths were discovered, and instead created, I started to be able to think metamathematically. That is to say, I stopped trying to figure out how to communicate with some kind of transcendent other world of math (that is actually ultimately unreachable), and just started to trust my own logical skills. Before, concepts like infinite series or infinitesimals didn't really quite "click" - because I kept thinking they were something more than I thought they were. Now, I just understand them as human creations and it feels as if they simply "are what they do", or even more abstractly "they are what they are", purely immanent concepts. My concept of mathematics now is just creation of new tools by way of demonstrating equivalences, and the amount of equivalences you can construct are ultimately inexhaustible, so the maths we make are just like the tools we make: useful things for what we want to do.

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OP BTFO
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