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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It’s probably best to think of math as a language and not as a physical, measurable property. Math is the language that allows us to describe certain fundamental, universal phenom on. It has it’s own syntax and grammar, and it can be used to communicate ideas. Therefore, great thinkers are not actually inventing new ‘math’ as some sort of physical object, but instead are figuring out new ways to speak the language and describe phenomenon in new ways or, sometimes, even phenomenon we weren’t aware of before.
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