![]() ![]() ![]() However, if Pythagoras had not lived, someone else would have discovered exactly the same Pythagoras theorem. There is no reason to believe that another author would have written that same novel. If Leo Tolstoy had not lived we would never have known Anna Karenina. We mathematicians discover them and are able to connect to this hidden reality through our consciousness. I argue, as others have done before me, that mathematical concepts and ideas exist objectively, outside of the physical world and outside of the world of consciousness. He says it briefly and eloquently in an interview in The Economist.ĭoes maths exist without human beings to observe it, like gravity? Or have we made it up in order to understand the physical world? It also gives access to another, ultimate reality that transcends our own. ![]() Math, he argues, is not only beautiful and worthy of our love. Frenkel in his book are not only fascinating but very relevant to subjects we touch on often here. Congratulations to UC Berkeley mathematician Edward Frenkel whose book Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality is in the top five science books for the year at Amazon! I wrote about Frenkel in a different context recently when he participated in the expression of some dangerous reservations about Darwinian theory in, of all places, the New York Times Book Review (" Someone at the New York Times Wasn’t Being Sufficiently Vigilant About Stealth ‘Creationism’ When This One Got Through"). ![]()
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