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Is Mathematics Invention or Discovery?
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... Tso William 12B Is Mathematics Invention or Discovery? The question on mathematics being invention or discovery has long been debated. In the ancient Greeks, Pythagoras and his school of thinking, Pythagoreans, considered number in mathematics to be a representation of reality. Plato, one of the most important Greek philosophers in the Western Philosophy, reasoned mathematics being the only way to understand the true reality of the world or the form. Thus they both suggested math being the ultimate reality that must be discovered by human. On the other hand, there are three fundamental questions about the nature of mathematics itself. First, we must know where mathematics exists and where it is operating. Secondly, we are not sure how we discover the so-called reality of math. We must take a closer look on the system we are using to find the mathematics laws that represents the reality. Finally, since mathematics laws must correspond with
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