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Originally Posted by virtualmeet
I think that math is science that was created by humans to make it easy for them to study nature more in depth. Thus, math is just an universale "language" that we use to formulate nature's laws that was discovered by others sciences like physics.
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Or perhaps it can be seen as the fabrication of a tautology based on logic which allows us to extend our deductive logic to situations which are too complex to be held in our conscious mind as a closed entity. Note Feynman's position, "mathematics is the distilled essence of logic!"
I suspect mathematics could probably be defined to be the design and study of internally self consistent systems. That would make the "systems" invented; however, if one conceives of mathematics as the entire set of all possible self consistent systems, then it would clearly be something to be discovered. There is something to be said for exactness in one's assertions.
On the other hand, if you disagree with my position, I challenge you to create a logically self consistent system which can not either be mapped into a known mathematical representation or be accepted as a "new" mathematics system by mathematicians.
Have fun -- Dick
Knowledge is Power
and the most common abuse of that power is to use it to hide stupidity
