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To: ArGee

So you don’t think math is “discovered” but “created”?
You don’t find it to be “remarkable” that what was originally developed to do “inventory” meaning keeping track of ‘how many’, and ‘how big’; then is later shown when “abstracted” away from ‘accounting’ to have rich fullness and seemly endless stream of properties and structure?


51 posted on 11/05/2015 11:58:27 AM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

Not necessarily, any more than language might have been invented primarily to tell people the best place to fish but now has rich fullness and seemingly endless stream of properties and structure.

Non-Euclidian geometries, to me, suggests that math is our servant, not our master. When we use math to model reality as we experience it, it’s useful. If we devise other mathematical structures, no matter how interesting, they aren’t useful (except maybe as art).

I could be missing something, but that’s what I see.


53 posted on 11/05/2015 12:04:09 PM PST by ArGee (There are three types of liars. Liars, damned liars, and Clintons)
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