[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is There a Mathematician?
it points out a sense that i've had in conversations with other scientists across the years. It this idea that that mathematics 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 ing or describing, right? And actually know a number of mathematicians and theoretical physicists who speak exactly in the terms that you just described - that they have a reality. Mathematical concepts have a reality about them which is, in some sense, even stronger than the physical reality that we observe.
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