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A powerful reason to hold this is that mathematical theorems, indeed, are discovered.
Nobody can invent a theorem. You can invent a definition or an operation, but once this
is done, the results that follow are not subject to invention. The question, therefore, is
whether the axioms of mathematics, and the operations we define, are invented or
discovered.
Mathematics is a product of the human mind allows to model and explain physical and
social phenomena and the nature of things. But it can also recreate itself to find abstract
relationships that have their own existence within the mental framework of its
specifications, methods, rules and languages with which it is built.
"Plato is the banner of the defense of mathematics as discovery, his thinking is that
mathematics is an imperturbable structure that perfectly defines the universe." Based on
the internal logic of mathematics, a person can discover independent timeless laws of
mathematics. human observation. "