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Originally Posted by Bluescreen
Math is a symbolic representation of what happens in our real world.
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Actually, I think it goes beyond that. As Murray Gell-Mann puts it...
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"Another way to look at mathematics is to regard applied mathematics as concerning itself with the structures that occur in scientific theory, while pure mathematics covers not only those structures but also all the ones that might have occurred (or might yet turn out to occur) in science."
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All conceivable mathematical structures lie within its province, while the ones that are useful in describing natural phenomena are only a tiny subset of those that are or may be studied by mathematicians.
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