Mathematics, Like a Game?
This time, MoL alumnus Kirti Singh will present a paper co-authored with Klaas Landsman, titled “Is Mathematics Like a Game?”
As the name of the paper suggests, this session revisits the question of whether mathematics can be compared to a game. Drawing on ideas from Hilbert and Wittgenstein, Landsman and Singh argue that mathematics is best understood as a “rhododendron of language games”, where truth arises from the correctness of rule-following within the games rather than correspondence with reality. They propose a pluralist framework that connects the formal and applied sides of mathematics through inferential practices and axiomatization.