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Is mathematics discovered or invented?

>> No.10616957

>>10616956
Doesn’t matter, so why ask?

>> No.10616967

>>10616956
Grug in possesion of rock and rock that mean rock and rock = rockrock, too confusing for tribe, invent stick language for rock quantity 1+1=2 rock, tribe happy.

>> No.10616974

>>10616956
It's the application of human derived logic on natural systems.

>> No.10616981

>>10616956
Is a car invented or discovered?
Is a computer invented or discovered?
It's ultimately the same question because the single parts from which we assemble cars and computers have also already existed before.

>> No.10616985

>>10616981
Those things are invented, there's nothing inherent about them. Whereas natural laws described by mathematics are inherent.

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>>10616956
It's invented. Not a complicated process. You don't discover conjunctive logic form, it is abstracted from the need to make sense of a measurement or observation of energy/feedback that can be shared with others.

Operator Symbol -> Value/Integer

>> No.10617006

>>10616956
>discovered or invented?
Both

>> No.10617070

"Is a model of the universe discovered or invented?"

The invention of the model is derived from the discovery of the universe. The invention of mathematics -- logic, notation, rigor -- are derived from intrinsic properties of the universe.

>> No.10617173

>>10616985
>natural laws described by mathematics are inherent.
What does this have to do with mathematics?