Is math invented or discovered?

What's not invented

math is just a meme invented by a schizophrenic 5000 years ago and it stuck.

Couldn't you argue that certain engineering concepts like the equilibrium of planes, something so simple, were -discovered- by Archimedes?

only raging faggots post the same threads over and over again

It's discovered, OP. Each time this thread is done I correct the record.

A majority of posters have a mistaken view of what mathematics actually is, and their mistaken view as to why mathematics is essentially "invented" is easily picked apart with a little inquiry. Speaking roughly, the sentiment is about as ridiculous as "inventing" fire.

Anons like this one regularly confuse our /discourse-about-math/, our admittedly invented chosen arbitrary notational conventions about math itself, etc, with the content of mathematics itself, which is the stuff that we figure out and which persists independently of us. That's what is most properlly actually meant by mathematics. And it is strictly discovered.

People also regulalry try to hem-and-haw in order to rescue the arbitrary, lesser "invention" side of math per the above, that I've just intimated. They do this because they don't want to take a side in what is an interesting philosophical question which really only has one right answer that I happen to be providing a correct answer to.

Your response was essentially "I'm right" over and over again. I think justifying your response for discussion is great, but couldn't you say this issue isn't entirely black and white?

Perhaps we have been given clues for discovering numbers in the number of our digits for instance, but how does this necessarily find proposition 47 in Book one of Euclid's elements, for instance. The Pythagorean theorem is found using Postulates, at the core. And this are determined not discovered.

Digits are invented. The base 10 system is invented. Operations are invented. The results are discovered as they are only logical conclusions. Think of it as a modular maze. You can make pieces and put them together in just about any order. You invented a maze. You have to discover where it leads though.

not him but the idea is

we invent tools to study an underlying structure

I understand but this structure has to be necessarily defined not just by propositions, which you can say wait lying to be discovered, but postulates, which are proposed or dictated by the geometer.

Like colours it exists without observation, we assign it purpose and labels.