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Is mathematics real? A viral TikTok video raises a legitimate question with exciting answers

  • Written by Daniel Mansfield, Lecturer in Mathematics, UNSW
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While filming herself getting ready for work recently, TikTok user @gracie.ham reached deep into the ancient foundations of mathematics and found an absolute gem of a question:

How could someone come up with a concept like algebra?

She also asked what the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras might have used mathematics for, and other...

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