(October 12, 2013 at 4:33 am)Bucky Ball Wrote:The thing is... mathematics would work equally well regardless of the nomenclature invented to describe it.(October 12, 2013 at 2:51 am)Aractus Wrote: I'll give you my take on it - mathematics is invented by humans, and is based on rules, which are also invented.
If they're "invented" then they *just happen* to correspond, and predict, and describe perfectly everything that is found to be true in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Probability ? Right.
Numbers were invented as a means to describe real physical quantities.