I can’t seem to wrap my head around the fact that math is invented? Maybe he came up with the symbols of integration and derivation, but these are phenomena, no? We’re just representing it in a “language” that makes sense. I’ve also heard people say that we may need “new math” to discover/explain new phenomena. What does that mean?
Edit: Thank you for all the responses. Making so much more sense now!
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not really, calculus is their way of manipulating numbers and representing phenomena; you can come up with your own way to do the same and name it whatever you want. But until then, it’ll still remain that Newton is one of the people who invented calculus
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