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name Richard J. status educator age 30s Question - Mathematics; Invented or discovered? I'm still undecided, maybe a little of both - or am I treading on dangerous ground? Richard, Before deciding whether mathematics was invented or discovered, we must clarify terminology.
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Author: peter j antol Who invented mathematics and for how long has it been around? Response #: 1 of 1 Author: asmith Math did not need to be invented! It has been around forever.
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History of mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the origin of discoveries in mathematics and, to a lesser extent, an investigation into the mathematical meth...
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Mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mathematics is the science and study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns, formulate new conjectures, and establish truth by rigorous deduction from appropriate...
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Every culture on earth has developed some mathematics. In some cases, this mathematics has spread from one culture to another. Now there is one predominant international mathematics, and this mathematics has quite a history.
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Was mathematics invented or discovered? Seems like mathematicians ponder and invent, and yet, the book of nature... ... From: John Mergendoller Date: Wed, 17 May 95 18:58:58 -700 Subject: Is mathematics invented or discovered? I am not a k-12 student, but I have a math question I've wondered about ever since I was.
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rebotfc, on 04/29/2008, -0/+6Heh, an interesting question, however the article assumes that physics is discovered and mathematics being something distinct from physics which may or may not be discoverable.
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So to what extent are we mentally selecting particular kinds of experience and deeming them to be important, rather than picking up things that really are important in the workings of the Universe? Is mathematics invented or discovered?
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NOOKS AND CRANNIES; Is mathematics invented or discovered? If the latter, who made it? ... If mathematics is a tool then we also 'discovered' that tool. I would suspect our earliest agricultural ancestors discovered mathematics and I would suspect the moon's waxing and waning would be the source of that discovery.
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