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For example: I don't believe in the axiom of choice nor in the continuum hypothesis.

Not stuff like "math is useless" or "people hate math because it's not well taught", those are opinions about math.

I'll start: exponentiation should be left-associative, which means a^b should mean b×b×...×b } a times.

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[–] SmartmanApps 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mathematics isn’t some objective truth

Yes it is. That's why it's such a huge part of Physics.

it’s just human made structures

The notation is. The rest is underlying laws of Nature.

Sometimes we can even apply them to real world situations!

Maths whole reason for being is to model real world situations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow you just disproved all of academic mathematical foundations and philosophy! Congrats!

[–] SmartmanApps 1 points 1 day ago

Wow you just disproved all of academic mathematical foundations and philosophy!

You must be writing from an alternate universe where what I just said isn't already in textbooks and books on the history of Maths. It's certainly what we teach to students