>>13176492>Was mathematics discovered or invented?Discovered. Do you create or influence the laws of the universe that mathematics describes? No. Sir Isaac Newton did not invent gravity, which is described by calculus. He observed, reasoned and then reflected that law with mathematics. And by mathematics, I'm not talking about symbols, but what each one represents. So, in that respect, the same is true for language as we attach meaning to sounds, definitions to words. Or rather, vice versa. Thus, mathematics is a language*; mathematics is describing the laws of the universe, indeed, mathematics IS one of the laws of the universe.
*Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which is always before our gaze—known as the universe—but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and understand the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in [the] mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth. [The Creator of the universe is speaking to us in the language of mathematics, if only we would listen].
—Galileo Galilei!
>Was mathematics discovered or invented?>[Did Eva discover the Tree of Reason or invent its fruit, which is knowledge of the Enduring Moral Order?]Reason shows itself to itself; mathematics is both uncovered by reason and is reason itself. We have a spark of the divine in us as a woman can create life just as God created us and we can understand God's language: mathematics.
