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I learned geometry 50 years ago and it is useful to me today, as it
has been to many generations. I learned Pascal only 5 years ago and
it is not useful; students are introduced to programming via C++
today. And it will be Java, or something else, tomorrow.
Perhaps it is precisely because we humans created these things that
they are finite, limited and ultimately of only passing value; ...
Mathematics, like physics, is a human description of reality. It is
the description (ie. Mathematics or Physics) which is human, not the
reality being described.