The age-old philosophical crisis that's caused more existential breakdowns than failed grant applications. Is math discovered or invented? Platonists sweat profusely while contemplating whether 2+2=4 existed before humans did. Meanwhile, formalists are smugly certain we just made it all up. Nothing like the mathematical foundations debate to turn a perfectly normal conference dinner into three hours of increasingly desperate hand gestures and napkin equations.
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