RenegadeOfPhunk wrote:Maths is of a higher dimension to us
...See - it's a nifty idea. Was it Euclid who believed that mathematical concepts literally do exist in some other plane? Can't remember...
...but this is one of the things I'd like you to 'prove' at some point :)
I believe it was Plato. Many mathematicions (like Roger Penrose) are Neo-Platonists. One example that Penrose used in his book. The Road to Reality was the Mandlebrott set (fractal). It is very complex an intricate. It wasn't something Mandlebrott really made up or designed. It was "discovered" by him. Penrose also mentioned Euclid in discussing it because Euclid noticed a difference between postulates and Axioms. It turns out the postulates don't always have to be true which gives us non-euclidean geometries such as found in space-time.