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Is Math an Invention?

Dr. Hakan Oztunc
4 min readDec 25, 2020

Whether you like math or not, but you could not discuss its importance. All useful inventions make our lives more convenient by using more or less mathematics and its applications. However, does math exist, or does it not? There have been a lot of disputes on this argument. In other words, is mathematics creativity or discovery?

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Mathematics is in all other sciences, but it is difficult for other sciences to interfere with mathematics. However, getting any tangible gain from mathematics is very limited. Biology studies living organisms. The equivalent of many things as living forms, plant species, and organism types can establish directly in real-life. People tested diseases to find out cures, explored new life forms, and found out new species. Physics dwells on the universe and its forces. Planets, galaxies, suns, thermodynamics, mechanics, fluid mechanics introduce us to the rules of the universe we live in. If these rules in nature are understood and applied in life, beauties of life can be revealed, and there is a direct correspondence with our everyday life. Chemistry stands on the chemical: Medicines, dyes, fragrances, the synthesis of oil and its products create products that serve many human lives.
What does math fulfill? Only the topics of mathematics and mathematics itself. When this is the case, the two thoughts we mentioned before occur: Is mathematics an invention or a collection of…

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Dr. Hakan Oztunc
Dr. Hakan Oztunc

Written by Dr. Hakan Oztunc

Statistics Professor, Math Lover, Teaching @UOFT. Author of numerous Math Novels. Always looking to make math fun for everyone. MyBook: https://amzn.to/2M5F5Nz

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