Philosophy of mathematics – a reading list (2020)
Meh. No mention of Pythagoras or any Platonism.Max Tegmark, Karl Popper and Roger Penrose are the three best known for promoting the Pythagorean-Platonic idea that mathematics precedes matter. Because that seriously freaks some people out—they can’t even deal with the idea. But, fairly basic, that triangles are transcendent and would exist in any civilization, in any galaxy? Matter has never produced a perfect sphere, but spheres are nevertheless truly real—- right?