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Math: Discovery or Invention?
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10-19-2004, 12:14 AM
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Math: Discovery or Invention?
I was just curious what others' views on this subject are. When someone comes up with a new theorem or result in math, has he or she invented it? Or was it there all along and he or she simply discovered it?
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