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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Depends on your definition of invented and discovered. Was the wheel invented? Or did we simply discover that round things roll? Either way, Newton was the first one to officially call it “the wheel” and use it in an academic setting. Before then yeah, anyone could have cut a round piece of wood or stone to roll down a hill, but they didn’t.
Replace the wheel with calculus, and that’s it.
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