Einstein sobre matemática

"I think mathematics ceases to be true when you stop believing in it. Therefore, by any reasonable definition of truth (such as correspondence definition), mathematics is false. Mathematics in fact, need not correspond to anything in the real world. We do not even have a guarantee that the real world exhibits logic, or only seems to. Moreover, mathematics is a simplification and abstraction: therefore, its only purpose can be decoration and embellishment: to take the bare reality, and distill a structure from it that is nowhere there. There is no circle: yet what is a circle, mathematically a locus of points? What are points. Mathematicians fantasies, full of sound and fury, and corresponding to nothing. I do not believe in mathematics." Einstein