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Was maths created or discovered?

Asked by shrubbery (10326points) July 8th, 2008

Do you believe that humans created the concept/construct of maths to explain everything and describe the world, or do you believe that maths has always been there, and we just discovered it? Think about the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence in relation to nature.
Please explain and elaborate your position :)

a side note, if maths has always been there, does that mean if there was other intelligent life out there would they then be using the same maths?

another side nite, is time a construct that we created?

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