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Comment author: anonym 30 November 2009 02:03:46AM 11 points [-]

... by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Henri Poincaré

Comment author: RobinZ 21 September 2011 08:57:49PM 0 points [-]

(necroreply:) In many ways this is true of mathematics in general, except where those mathematics are adopted for their beauty or elegance.

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