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Núñez is not a mathematician and claims an anti-Platonic view of maths which is totally inconsistent with the reality of practicing mathematicians over the past
by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Núñez is not a mathematician and claims an anti-Platonic view of maths which is totally inconsistent with the reality of practicing mathematicians over the past century. In particular, I doubt that they grok the extent to which maths and physics have collaborated, and all of the predictions in particle colliders which started out as quirks of equations on blackboards.
- Retra 9y agoNothing about the practice of mathematics over the last century requires (or is even advantaged by) a platonic view.
- beojan 9y agoA Platonic view of mathematics, not a Platonic view of the physical universe. That is, when we say '1', we mean the abstract concept of unity, not one of any particular physical thing.