[garysweaver]

> God made the integers. All else is man made.

"God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man" - Leopold Kronecker. Possibly misquoted by Raymond Ayoub in "Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections".

[graycat]

Thanks! I wanted to say natural numbers but thought that the original quote was the integers.

No excuse! Should have at least tried to Google the quote instead of just typing quickly from undergraduate school memory!

[saraid216]

Stephen Hawking appears to disagree with garysweaver:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Created_the_Integers

Not that Hawking is intrinsically more qualified.