[LeGrande]

On the point of pi being officially declared as 3 - I do not know the background but I hasten to point out that a stumbling block both to mathematics and science is the precision of the measure.

Yes, and for sufficiently large values of 1, 1+1 can equal 3 or any number really : ) Math is just a tool that we use to try and describe reality, it doesn't create reality, although some mathematicians may think otherwise.

[Alamo-Girl]

Math is just a tool that we use to try and describe reality...

By this statement, perhaps you are revealing yourself to be an Aristotlean with regard to math.

I am a mathematical Platonist like Penrose, Tegmark, Godel, et al. For instance, the mathematician doesn't invent the geometry, he discovers it.

Indeed, I aver that all mathematicians are to some extent Platonist because the variable in each formula testifies to the universality of the expression.

[hosepipe]

[ Math is just a tool that we use to try and describe reality, it doesn't create reality, although some mathematicians may think otherwise. ]

Reality does not need to add up.. be logical.. or compute..
Reality is not trying to prove anything.. like science fiction..