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Was Maths invented or discovered?
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Was Maths invented or discovered? Mathematics has clearly played a significant part in the development of many past and present civilisations. Almost everything in our everyday living seems to be directly linked with mathematics. Although Mathematics seems to be very familiar to man, there has been a great difficulty to answer this question, " Was Mathematics invented or discovered?". This mystery has created great diversion amongst great philosophers and mathematicians. The reason for such dilemma in answering this question is the fact that each of these two theories is backed by several valid arguments. It is extremely hard to choose between these possibilities. Stating that Maths was invented would mean that Maths is a language, like all others invented by man, which surely, it is not. On the other hand, saying that it was discovered would also be too radical, it would mean that maths was perceived by man. There are...
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