Many of my favourite books have been read in the Nagpur-Goa-Nagpur
journeys. Last weekend I added "गणिती" by
Achyut Godbole to the list. The book made me think about beauty in mathematics.
In the preface to this book,
the author Achyut Godbole brings up an interesting idea:
Is Mathematics a
discovery, or an invention? Laws of physics and chemistry would exist even if
there were no humans to measure them. But would algebraic equations and
calculus exist without us?
Laws of physics
seem to be the same across the universe. Would the mathematics of aliens be
same like us?
