Alien Mathematics

Is math truly universal—or just human? Explore how alien minds might think, count, and reason in ways we don’t recognize as mathematics at all.

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Credits: Alien Mathematics
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
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Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic & Stellardrone

Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:02 Why We Expect Mathematics to Be Universal
6:32 Math Is Not the Same Even for Humans
10:47 How Alien Biology Could Reshape Their Mathematics
16:44 Alien Logic: When the Rules Themselves Don’t Match
20:37 Oldest & Newest
21:41 Can We Ever Bridge the Mathematical Gap?