• Question: did we invent maths or we discovered?

    Asked by lola_fs to Dara on 12 Nov 2021.
    • Photo: Dara Meehan

      Dara Meehan answered on 12 Nov 2021:


      I’m not a mathematician, but, I would say maths is something we discovered, rather than invented. A lot of nature and the world around us operates under certain mathematical prinicipals, so I believe it was always there, but humans just discovered how to understand it and give it names.

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