{"id":3454,"date":"2013-10-15T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T19:53:29","slug":"does-math-actually-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/10\/15\/does-math-actually-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Math actually exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TbNymweHW4E?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Related to Prof. Roochnik&#8217;s CC101 lecture on Plato and maths, is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/wait-a-minute-does-math-actually-exist-511570744\">post<\/a> from\u00a0<em>Gizmodo<\/em> titled &#8216;Wait a Minute: Does Math actually exist?&#8217;. Here is a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>PBS Idea Channel tackles the subject of whether math really exists or not. It&#8217;s a legitimate question because math, unlike physics or chemistry or biology, can&#8217;t be seen or smelled or observed. Idea Channel writes:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Do we live in a mathless universe? Or if math is a real entity that exists, are there formulas and mathematical concepts out there in the universe that are undiscovered? Or is it all fiction?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, Prof. Roochnik\u00a0does actually subscribe to a form of mathematical realism. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to Prof. Roochnik&#8217;s CC101 lecture on Plato and maths, is a\u00a0post from\u00a0Gizmodo titled &#8216;Wait a Minute: Does Math actually exist?&#8217;. Here is a sample: PBS Idea Channel tackles the subject of whether math really exists or not. It&#8217;s a legitimate question because math, unlike physics or chemistry or biology, can&#8217;t be seen or smelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,3860,4261],"tags":[3689,48515,48516,48513,48514,4218,48517,4348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}