All mathematics is produced by physical objects (brains, computers). Therefore the laws of physics determine what theorems are possible, and mathematics has no existence independent of our universe.
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Is your position different to the psychologism that Frege finds in Husserl's work? (Suitably updated, of course.) I'm not sure what you mean when you say 'physics determines what theorems are possible'. Places limits on what we can prove or determines what's a theorem at all?
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That seems right, fwiw. I just wasn't sure whether you meant something more exotic (e.g., that if the laws of physics had been different, mathematical truths would be different).
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