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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 2915 Level 31.81 Mar 2006 
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It's a neat question. I agree, mathematics is an invention, in that you start with a set of axioms and a system of logic which you create. But then, that defines all sorts of stuff, some of which may not be readily apparent. While playing around in your invention, you discover things that were probably not envisioned.
For instance, the banach-tarski paradox was most likely not envisioned when defining the concept of measure, right? So one could argue that it was discovered afterwards. A bit of both. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
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