What is Mathematics: a discovery or invention?
Mathematics, about which I know very little, seems to be part invention and part discovery. Something along the lines of cracking a code. The universe is already full of mathematics. Over many centuries, mathematicians have succeeded slowly to break the code and invent ways in which to understand time, space and distance. Building the Pyramids and even Stone Henge, would have been impossible without first an understanding of mathematics – a means of measuring, plus a great deal of knowledge about astronomy. When we come to the Parthenon, we’re talking serious mathematics – something the Greeks understood and had a lot do to with the understanding of. The very word itself, mathematics, comes from Greek, MATHMATICOS. So,it’s off to the Olympics then, in 2008 to Beijing to meet the Chinese, a nation of mathematicians and scholars. At the Olympics we will run round a track, an easy shape to look at but one which the Greeks first had to design by a mathematical formula. Then there’s that bu
please grasp that a scientific principle that has been carried into an effect is invention, whereas, a scientific principle (which did exist) is regarded as discovery! This is a basic rule followed to grant patents! Mathematics involves scientific principles alone which is regarded as discovery. (It is impossible to prove that such a principle did not exist)! A very good example to it is “Ancient Indians invented zero” is generally accepted all over the world! Anybody can quote it without explaining why ancient Indians could do it so early! It also lead to propagating it in a differrent manner as “Aryabhatta invented zero” or “some thing else”! It completely misguides people! When you have to logically explain a fact relating “an early evolution of zero in India”, do it as “a usual language-sense gets fixed when a number-sense (singular/ plural) is added to sentence” and said principle has been depicted by ancient Indians to fix whole number states (by before-units counting)! Incidentl
