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Mathematics: created or discovered?

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Tom5
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05 May 2012, 4:40 pm

Cognitive science could maybe answer this question one day.

I think mathematics is a cognitive invention of the human mind and this can be studied in areas such as cognitive science, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and formal languages theory because mathematics is also a formal language and in cultural anthropology.



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05 May 2012, 10:27 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Joker wrote:
How could some one be able to create Mathematics when Mathematics can be so complitcated at times?


The best mathematicians are very, very smart.


People create things so to me it seems that the Myans and other cultures helped create what is Mathematics. After all it was the muslims that created algebra.



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08 Jul 2012, 11:43 am

There are many new members that may find this topic to be of interest so I will bump said topic.