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You're constraining the concept of math in a way that nobody really does, is not useful to the discussion, and isn't intended by the article, which does attempt

You're constraining the concept of math in a way that nobody really does, is not useful to the discussion, and isn't intended by the article, which does attempt to reduce things like dice results, indeed the entire universe, to math.

coldtea 8y ago
>You're constraining the concept of math in a way that nobody really does Really? I'd say that everybody, and every textbook I've ever seen uses the same definition. The one additional distinction people disagree on is whether math is just the theorems, proofs, etc we've already described, or if math can be thought of as encompassing all possible maths (the latter being the so-called platonic view of math). Considering dice results and their randomness (or lack thereof) as math (as opposed to something that we can use math to calculate the probabilities of) or considering the "entire universe" as math is not really a common interpretation. I'd say that it's your view instead that few have in mind when speaking about math. People do say that mathematical principle underline physical laws and goings on inside the universe, but not that the universe is math itself.