Was math discovered or invented ?

@revenant … or maybe the laws of nature were discovered by applying maths?

@helenS My guess is through observation , numbers got then invented,,fibonacci ? I can never remember the correct name ..

gravity was there before Newton explained it.. @helenS

@revenant No doubts about that.

@revenant @revenant A large part of mathematics is deductive and an ongoing puzzle is how it applies to physical reality at all. Laws of nature are empirical and seem not to have necessity as an ingredient. e=mc(squared) seems to be different from 1+1=2 in that e might have been equal to mc cubed! It took Einstein to figure out that it was c squared.

@Alfred22 ...E could NEVER be mc^3. The units are not consistent.

The point is that Einstein's derivation did not create that reality, or we would not have had atoms w/radioactivity before him...