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Re: Math: Did we discover or create it?
As a sculptor and painter and by no means a mathematician I tend to see math as a creative force of nature. Basic inherent laws that govern the universe that are constant but at the same time creative.{{ Gravity, quantum mechanics.}} The periodic table of elements and structures of molecules, that all depend upon basic rules of relationships that exhibited attractions, repulsions dualities, symmetries “a music of the spheres.”
We also create are own mathematics based on rules of relationships. Our own invented musical scores are arranged in an order so the notes create relationships to one another. If the composer of the music is tuned in to the inherent interplay within, we can say they are “creative,” but is the composer the inventor of the music,? Or maybe they are just good listeners. I think if you ask the best of them {mathematicians/ composers} they say that they are just good at listening to what is already there.
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I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered. - Sir Isaac Newton
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