![]() ![]() Moreover, that theorem means the same to us today as it meant to Pythagoras 2,500 years ago.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. However, if Pythagoras had not lived, someone else would have discovered exactly the same Pythagoras theorem. 'This remarkable function can be used to give an effective formula for calculating the nth Fibonacci number without any reference to the preceding Fibonacci numbers. ![]() 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 is professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of “ Love and Math”, recently published by Basic Books.ĭoes maths exist without human beings to observe it, like gravity? Or have we made it up in order to understand the physical world? Edward Frenkel Basic Books, 2013 292 pages, US27.99 ISBN-13: 978-4-1. Edward Frenkel is a Russian mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. ![]()
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