"How Can It Be That Mathematics, Being After All A Product
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"How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product
of human thought which is independent of experience, is so
admirably appropriate to the objects of reality (Einstein)?"
"How can it be that mathematics, being after all
a product of human thought which is independent of
experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of
reality (Einstein)?" This issue has troubled philosophers
as well as scientist since Einstein first posed it. To
answer what Einstein meant when he asked the question, a
person must understand what mathematics really is. The
physical world is very important to understand when looking
at the question. When deriving a meaning from Einstein's
statement it is necessary to restate the quote in a
simplistic style and understand how...