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Is mathematics discovered or invented?

                Mathematics is both discovered and invented. Everything in the universe is independent to human control and knowledge, and the existence of all the relationships between quantities and numbers exist and have existed before men decided to use them. When humans first started to notice these relationships, they discovered them and decided to make use of them. This is why they invented a concept to pin it down: mathematics. This is the part of math that is invented, a system of numbers and ideas that we can understand universally. The symbols, ways of getting to answers and rules were invented by men, but the existence of relationships, quantities, and patterns exists independent of human invention. All we did is discover it and invent a language to understand it.