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Was math discovered or invented? March 14, 2011

On this Pi Day in 2011, I find myself wondering if math was discovered or invented.   The Pythagoreans believed that math was discovered and that whole numbers ruled the universe.  They also did not believe in irrational numbers, of which we now know there are an infinite amount.  So then was math invented?  I’m not sure….

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One Response to “Was math discovered or invented?”

  1. [...] on a quest for information about the whole number pi, tell your teacher that’s her request is an irrational [...]


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