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by reso 1026 days ago
This fact is interesting because many people grew up with an idea of mathematics as having discovered fundamental truth, and some of us, when we get deep into the field, realize that Math is made up of human ideas, exactly the same as a very complex boardgame we play in our heads, and that the belief that these boardgames represent something fundamental about reality is it's own leap of faith.
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How is it a leap of faith when mathematical models that describe reality demonstrate continued reliance in making predictions? Does this not demonstrate that there exist mathematical relationships between certain physical quantities?