[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is Mathematics Invented, or Discovered?
Mathematics is a very, very complex mixture of inventions and disco ries. Some people are unhappy with the conclusion i reached in this book because we always like things to be black or white. We don't like them so much. I mean, people can even live with gray, but they cannot live so well with black and white. Ah, it's all an invention of the human mind, really, that, you know, we invent all these things, and it's all like a game. You know, we play game. We invent the rules of the game, and we just, whenever we want, we can change the rules, and we change the game and so on
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