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from the dept. "There is an article up at Science News on a question that, remarkably, is still being debated after a few thousand years: is mathematics discovered, or is it invented? Those who answer "discovered" are the intellectual descendants of Plato; their number includes Roger Penrose. The article notes that one difficulty pointed out with the Platonic view is that, if mathematical ideas exist in some way independent of humans or minds, then human minds engaged in doing mathematics must somehow be able to connect with this non-physical state. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31392/title/Still_debating_with_Plato < | Brain activity predicts errors >
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Is mathematics invented or discovered?
