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Is it possible that an alien civilization has completely different mathematics than ours?

  • Sep 6, 2014
  • 1 min read

An alien civilization could have a completely different mathematics than ours – they could have differing ideas about infinity, Godel’s theorem, linearity and time, and counting, to mention a few.

With no experience of ET mathematicians, we haven’t got much to go on. But, let’s take a look at a few of the ways ET maths could take different approaches from ours, or be hard for us to understand.

This is meant as no more than a light hearted exploration of these ideas, and if it stimulates some interesting thoughts, I’ve more than done my job.

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