> What you are > saying is EXACTLY what I and others have been saying. When I and others say > or allude to the fact that mathematics existed before the dawn of time
Sorry, Bob, but I'm with Dr. Don on this one. What he's said about six times is perfectly correct and I think you're the one not getting it. Mathematics is a human invention and a late one. It hasn't "existed since the dawn of time." How did it exist? Were there dinosaur math professors? It's a human invention, practiced by humans, and it's evolving--it's a hell of a lot more advanced right now than it was fifty or a hundred years ago, never mind since the dawn of time. What, was differential calculus just out there on the savannahs waiting for the Neanderthals to discover it? What you're saying makes no more sense than saying that carburetors have existed since the dawn of time. Or scissors, or opera. --Mike
