On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Pal Engstad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nothing  in Mathematics is real. It exists only in our heads. By the way, 
> that's a good thing!
>
> You can apply math to many things though, even to programs. You can use it to 
> understand real things.
>
> Writing it down doesn’t make it real. Just like unicorns, just because I just 
> wrote it down just now doesn't make it any more real.

You wrote down "unicorns". That is a real word. I'm saying proofs are
just things you write down. So they're real, although the things they
talk about are not. I agree that ideas are not real in that they do
not physically exist.
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