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Math: Discovery or Invention?
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10-22-2004, 02:37 PM
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daking
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axioms are invention.
proofs are invention.
theorems are discovery.
I guess apart from pythagoras's theorem as its equivalent to Eucilds 5th postulate. So that would make it an invention if viewed in that perspective
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