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| View Poll Results: Math-Invention or Discovery | |||
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23 | 41.07% |
| Discovery |
  
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20 | 35.71% |
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9 | 16.07% |
| Delicious cake |
  
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4 | 7.14% |
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 Member 1399 Level 25.03 Mar 2006 
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I answered, "An entire delicious cake" because I wasn't sure what basis of the original question was. Invention or discovery?
Newton watching the apple fall from the tree was a discovery, while his theory of gravity was the description of that discovery. Absence a dictionary definition and a set of mathematical theorems, gravity still exerts its effects.  Take a tree for example. It exists to be discovered, but also described. In language, a poet would say: I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree... A mathematician on the other hand might depict the Tree of Knowledge mathematically as a fractal: http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdo..._of_knowledge/ It is the tree that exists to be discovered. After that discovery, it remains for the poet or the mathematician to describe... Jam it back in, in the dark.
"We are all the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow there. Too much – the best of us is washed away…" - G'Kar
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