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From the Vault: The Origins of Numeracy

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is Mathematics a Human Invention or a Human Discovery?

Mathematics is both this thing that we have some level of innate. capability for, and yet it is also undeniably a acquired skill. It's like the rules of chess: Humans had to invent them but once they are in place you can discover objectively true facts about the universe.

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