How does one “invent new maths”? Like Isaac Newton inventing Calculus, or John Napier logs. How does one answer a mathematical question that’s never been answered?

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How does one “invent new maths”? Like Isaac Newton inventing Calculus, or John Napier logs. How does one answer a mathematical question that’s never been answered?

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The simplest way to answer this is it is not invented. Math is at its basis a Language. A banana exists. We didn’t invent the banana. We invented a word to describe it. Gravity exists. A mathematician used the language of math to describe how it works.

Math is a language to describe patterns numerically.

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