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Mathematics has no Platonic existence outside the universe: it is a feature of this biosphere and tells us about our own structure.

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mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

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  1. Sara Walker

    Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University

    But mathematics too, and it’s interesting because people think that math has this Platonic reality that exists outside of our universe, and I think it’s a feature of our biosphere and it’s telling us something about the structure of ourselves.

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