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I will tell you, because I am getting my Ph.D in Mathematics History... Unfortunately, many people (especially mathematicians) believe that mathematics is something that was 'discovered' not created... That math would exist even if human beings weren't around to think about it. Humans didn't create math, but rather 'discovered' it from the world... However, there is an alternative to this perspective... instead of thinking about math as something that was 'discovered', we could also think of it as something that was 'created'... Meaning that someone (humans) had to exist first before mathematics could exist. That we, humans, created it. First of all, assume that human beings 'created' mathematics instead of 'discovered' it. Then, you must also understand that humans do not live alone... We live in groups of people (we call this a CULTURE)... whether that is a family, a town, or an entire civilization, all humans live in groups... And because of this, humans (even mathematicians) are affected by the way the group thinks about the world... For example, if a group has a certain religion, that religion will have an effect on how you perceive the world. Not only religion can have an impact on how you view the world, but also things such as the 'philosophy', and the 'ethics' of the group will have an effect on you, whether you acknowledge it or not. All these things that have an effect on how you percieve the world are called COSMOVISION. And, believe it or not, cosmovision (religion, philosophy, and ethics) can all play a role in the type of mathematics that will be created within a particular group (culture). So, if you understand the historical reasons for why a culture believed a particular religion or philosophy, you will understand why they developed a particular type of mathematics. Check out this paper that I wrote: www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lvaliente/Math1319/Ethnomath.doc It will explain this more in detail.
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