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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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?

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