Kurt Gödel:
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Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
There is no fact about reality that can ever threaten facts about mathematics. Mathematic definitions exist independent of reality.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
rockerface@lemm.ee 5 months ago
In fact, you can build a system of definitions that very clearly doesn’t exist in real world, like hyperbolic geometry.
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Sometimes we find that obscure pure mathematics does describe reality when no one expected it to. Riemannian geometry is one such example.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Complex numbers, and a bunch more things too