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Love & Math: Edward Frenkel (#281)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?

Vigner: I used to be squarely a Platonist. But what I think now is that actually it's one of those cases where there is not an objective answer. In other words, if you look at it in certain way, humans are the ones who invented or discovered it. The two properties seem to be complementary but they can't be reconciled.

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