Was math discovered or invented?

Great Debates
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Hmm, to make it simple…

Math is to discovered as Calculus is to invented!

:smack:

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Thanks for the I will read the novel… Eventually.

Hey, I just ‘realized’, according to my formula [above], making friends is easy:

Communication - Thinking = Friends!!!

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Thanks for the recomendation, that is.

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Sorry about having three posts in a row (maybe it could be a title for a new thread: Is FairDink trying to increase his posts).

But I guess the conclusion is (correct me if i’m wrong) that it depends on which part of mathematics you are refering to?!?!?

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Here’s the Amazon.com listing for John Darnton’s Neanderthal.

In a nutshell, yes. That’s why my first post to this thread stated that neither of the two extremes of “discovered” or “invented” accurately captured the nature of mathematics.