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Comment by skoodge

Gregory Chaitin has an interesting take on this:

"The only place where medieval theology survives is pure math."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RLdSvQ-OF0

(The whole interview is actually quite nuanced on the question of whether math is discovered or invented and well worth a watch. There are also interviews with other mathematicians and physicists in the series, for example with Roger Penrose, but most other researchers seem to hold a rather dogmatic and platonist view, which is why I found Chaitin's perspective refreshing.)

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