Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Physicist S. James Gates, Jr. and science writer Margaret Wertheim discuss with Steve Paulson whether mathematics is an invention or has an independent existence.

This is an excerpt from "The Mystery of Our Mathematical Universe" recorded on October 10, 2018 at The New York Academy of Sciences. For the video of the complete discussion, see: youtu.be/M2YvRWZCmo0