Article #270
Subject: Is all of mathematics, "essentially trivial"?
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 10/17/2015 07:46:23 AM

It has been said [by one of my teachers at UC Berkeley, Prof. Wolf] that
mathematics is the study of "invariance under change of notation."

If this is so, doesn't mean that all of mathematics is "essentially trivial"?

Not if you, like you and me and Blaise Pascal, believe in God.
For, then we believe in the Certainty of Hope and that our task in mathematics
is to "give definition to the defined". The "defined" here means truth
existing as intuition in an Idealistic Platonic realm originally outside of
our own minds.

What do you think?
Or, better yet, what do you think God wants you to think about this belief or
propostion of you and me and Blasie Pascal and Himself existing in us [God]?