Mario Livio — Mathematics, Mystery, and the Universe
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Mathematical Concepts Have a Reality About It
i've had conversations with other scientists across the years, tat this idea that that mathematics e has a reality and truth about it. That may even be greater than the reality and truth of human perception or the physical world that it is measuring or describing. There are people who who absolutely speak in those terms. I actually know a number of mathematicians, and theoretical physicists too, who speak exactly in the terms that you just described. Mathematical concepts ove a reality about them which is, in some sense even stronger than the physical reality we observe.
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