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Is this backed? I mean, this is still and will forever be a debate, do we discovered or invented mathematics?

• phkahler 12y ago
  Did the Mandelbrot set exist prior to someone creating an image of it? I think so, so it was discovered. We're so used to fitting curves to data and things like that, that we think of mathematical objects as constructs rather than discoveries. By looking at something more complex like a fractal, it should be easier to see it the other way round.
• VLM 12y ago
  Geography analogy, some people can discover a continent for some bunch of people, but the only thing you can invent or create is a map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
  • taeric 12y ago
    But would you instead argue that you discovered how to draw the map?