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minus-squaredxdydz@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI mean, mathematics are an invention. A useful one, sure, but the whole thing is just made up by people playing around with numbers and going “what if we had a new, different kind of numbers…”
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agothere are number systems that work differently
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoif we play around with it and find out we can better describe how reality works it is not strictly made up some of it anyway and maybe all with a better understanding
minus-squaredxdydz@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThat’s when it stops being maths and becomes science
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agosure but if the discovery was done in pure math and only later was the relevance found?
I mean, mathematics are an invention. A useful one, sure, but the whole thing is just made up by people playing around with numbers and going “what if we had a new, different kind of numbers…”
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there are number systems that work differently
if we play around with it and find out we can better describe how reality works it is not strictly made up
some of it anyway and maybe all with a better understanding
That’s when it stops being maths and becomes science
sure but if the discovery was done in pure math and only later was the relevance found?