A lot of people are bashing this person online but these are awesome questions! Since I have an advanced degree in math, let’s see if I can answer them in 240 characters or less! https://twitter.com/aIeturner/status/1298372968838508546/video/1 …
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Her whole thing saying "Math isn't real" is a trollish way to say it but, I mean, she's right -- it's an abstract construct that isn't directly related to the physical world until you specifically use it in that way The argument for its "reality" is quasi-religious
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(And yes, I know that she clearly doesn't actually know who Pythagoras was or know anything about ancient Greece and she's confusing geometry for algebra, which was formalized and named after a book written in Baghdad over 1,000 years later But that's not the point)
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It also doesn't seem like we have a GREAT sense on his actual life, so much as we know about the kind of cult that he started after a few generations. But the point holds - numbers mean a lot, and can enrapture people.
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I mean, there IS perhaps something that really does get to mystical or sacred in mathematical constructs. It's one of the ways to explore the structure of reality in a way you can prove again when you wake up.
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