alt Hacker NewsI’m sure this will get downvoted by the Platonists (ie all contemporary mathematicians), but it’s interesting to see mathematicians slowly realizing that they are dealing with a generative topic, like all human writing, and not direct access to God’s asshole. Soon they will realize the same crisis as everyone else and then eventually they will realize that writing (math) is a human invention requiring humans to make meaning.
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Mathematicians have engaged, vigorously, on this very philosophical question for centuries - is math discovered truth, or is it more akin to building an edifice where you first define the materials, then the structure, and see where it leads? Lots of strong feelings on both sides.