Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars, and stairs, with remarkable precision. So is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and pieces of music? Or is mathematics discovered always out there, somewhere, like mysterious islands waiting to be found? Whatever mathematics is will help define reality itself.
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician, and philosopher. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.
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Our world doesn’t just have some mathematical properties: it fundamentally has only mathematical properties.
