Is Math The Primum Movens?

Some time ago, I wrote a couple of posts distinguishing All Possible Math from the Math We Know. In short, people only study the mathematics that is interesting or useful to us, and not too hard. When you think about that it becomes clear that there’s a lot more mathematics possible than the stuff Homo Sapiens talks about. Much of All Possible Math would be uninteresting for us, useless and/or too hard to grasp.

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The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Mathematics

42=6x9To paraphrase Douglas Adams, “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers the foundations of mathematics to be contradictory, they will instantly disappear and be replaced with something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened”

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