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> The question “is math real?” is answered in the epilog of this book. Cheng tells us that math is real because it is an idea and ideas are real. Solved!
by crabmusket 3y ago
> The question “is math real?” is answered in the epilog of this book. Cheng tells us that math is real because it is an idea and ideas are real.
Solved!
- bowsamic 3y agoThis is not an alternative to people reading the article
- crabmusket 3y agoAgreed. I just thought this little paragraph at the end of the article, which does directly address the title of the article, was amusing.
- Lockal 3y agoIf ideas are real, do you have any idea about entities that are not real? I mean, what is his exact definition of "unreal" things? Something that can not be formally described?
- crabmusket 3y agoI'll let Parmenides take that one > It needs must be that what can be spoken and thought is; for it is possible for it to be, and it is not possible for what is nothing to be.