Een brief die nooit zal aankomen zet zich verder
Naar aanleiding van een lezing van Thomas Hertog aan de KU Leuven deed ik nog wat inspiratie op. In an effort to elaborate on this analogy between mathematics and the universe from the Platonic viewpoint of mathematicians on their subject of study; this analogy provides a tangible construction of mathematical objects and concepts for which no separate Platonic universe is required. On the contrary, the universe is perceived as a spatial realisation of abstract mathematical ideas, both created from its…