Realism

Philosophy

Who Says Nature is Mathematical?

This piece wouldn’t have been called ‘Who Says Nature is Mathematical?’ if it weren’t for the many other similar titles which I’ve seen. Take these examples: ‘Everything in the Universe Is Made of Math — Including You’, ‘What’s the Universe Made Of? Math, Says Scientist’ and ‘Mathematics

Philosophy

Mathematical Intuitionism and Anti-Realism Compared and Contrasted

Mathematical intuitionism (which is a subset of mathematical constructivism) has it (or had it) that mathematics is purely the result of the mental activities of human beings; not the discovery of mathematical entities which exist in an “objective” (or Platonic) realm. In terms of L. E. J. Brouwer’s original