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Do elliptic curves, pi, Catalan numbers, spaces Euclidean and otherwise, ... exist without creation?


Mathematical structures are hypothetical, e.g. given a structure that is a group, here's a book full of properties it will have.

To get concrete, if our universe happens to be finite (which I suspect is true), a lot of mathematics doesn't describe anything that exists within this universe.




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