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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All math is just a language we can use to represent natural relationships. You’re right, they obviously didn’t create the underlying laws, they just discovered how they worked and figured out a way to represent them on paper. The relationships described by calculus are inherent properties of the universe.
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