That is a really hard question to answer and it is seriously controversial. It kind of depends on how one thinks of the subject. There are many parts of math that were created to measure phenomena which our minds see in real life, or so what we think is real. There is probably a limit on what our brains interpret as real and not real. Is a traingle really possible in a geometric plane? That completely depends on the state of mind we have on wether it is possible or not.
--When you get right down to it, it is all a man-made invention.
Numbers
are just concepts, whether they be known or unknown. I can show you 1
apple, or 2 oranges, but I cannot show you 1 or 2. I can show you a
symbol that represents a number, but I cannot show you the number
itself.
Much of math is a consequence of definitions, axioms, theorems, etc.
How does one "discover" that the sine of an angle is opp/adj ? One
doesn't, one defines it that way.
What *is* discovered is that much of this stuff actually has an
APPLICATION in the real world! This is the amazing part of it.
My $.02--
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Darrell Ryan
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It was discovered they could do math without counting all the time and then they created stupid formulas and thing after that. 3nodding Stupid stupid people who had to make our lives more complicated.