Do alien civilizations use the same mathematics idea as humans do?

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Re: Do alien civilizations use the same mathematics idea as humans do?

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Steve3007 wrote: January 30th, 2020, 4:27 am Is it conceivable that a civilisation might arise and have some kind of logical language, analogous to mathematics, that does not contain the concept of "number"?
I've really only quoted this text so that the interesting idea it contains is not lost or overlooked. My off-the-cuff answer to the question is "yes", but ... there's always a but. 😉 Food for thought, which is always nice.
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Nonhuman civilization living on another planet with advanced civilization like a human.

We don't know yet if there is another civilization like a human on another planet, but with a fact that this universe has billions of galaxy, each galaxy has billions of stars, some physicists believe there are many planets like earth out there.
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dipta wrote: February 3rd, 2020, 5:37 am Do alien civilizations also invent the same mathematical axioms and theorems as humans do? Or do they invent another mathematical system?

Is mathematics invented or discovered?
Do you have a perspective on it yourself?
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dipta wrote: February 3rd, 2020, 5:45 am
h_k_s wrote: January 30th, 2020, 5:31 pm

It is more likely than not if not totally certain that there are other "alien" species "out there" in the Universe with its 200 billion galaxies which we can now see with Hubble.

Depending on their evolution and the number of digits on their hands, they will have evolved mathematics similar to us except that since we have 10 fingers and 10 toes we have evolved a base-10 system with Sanskrit/Arabic numerals and the concept and number of a repeating zero.

So they might be base 2, or base 4, or base 3, or base 6, or base 12, or base 7, or base 14, etc.
The concept of limit, derivation, integration, matrix, complex number, etc. will work with every number system.

Maybe they develop different number systems, but do they also develop calculus, matrix, complex number, etc. like humans?
I have no doubt that other outer space humanoids have developed the same cultures and sciences as we have. It just depends on where they are at in terms of their development. This notion is often portrayed in the various showings of Star Trek on TV and in the movies.
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Re: Do alien civilizations use the same mathematics idea as humans do?

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Probably. I'm sure of one thing, every culture started with 1 plus 1. Basic addition and subtraction. Mathematics is needed by every civilized culture, and the same laws apply. I think of math as a truth that has always been available to man, or alien, it just has to be discovered.
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