One plus one equals two.

This is true even before humans existence. But many scientists and mathematicans spreads the beliefe that mathematic is an human invention to describe the reality.

“Mathematicians themselves often insist that their work has no practical effect. The British mathematician G. H. Hardy went so far as to describe his own work this way: “No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.” He was wrong. The Hardy-Weinberg law allows population geneticists to predict how genes are transmitted from one generation to the next, and Hardy’s work on the theory of numbers found unexpected implications in the development of codes.”

“Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the formulation of the laws of nature.”

“Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that — mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true.
Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered?
If, as Einstein insisted, mathematics is “a product of human thought that is independent of experience,” how can it so accurately describe and even predict the world around us?”

Source:
- Is God a Mathematician?, written by Mario Livio (978-0743294058)
- www.mariolivio.com

Is mathematic a language?

Well, yes, sure, why not!?!

If we observe the patterns in human language, in music, in the singing of birds and wales, …
all these patterns are based on mathematical principles.

“Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent of a pair of ears. Mathematics can be seen only with the eyes of the mind.” All of his books are attempts to get around this problem, to “try to communicate to others some sense of what it is we experience–some sense of the simplicity, the precision, the purity, and the elegance that give the patterns of mathematics their aesthetic value.”

Source: The Language of Mathematics, written by Keith Devlin (978-0805072549)

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