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user-inactivated  ·  3261 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Are mathematics created or discovered?

Both. Defining a mathematical object is creating it, but all of its properties are implicit in the definition, and so have to be discovered. That is, groups were created but the Sylow theorems were discovered.