Post #4327970

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz @Colman@mastodon.ie @zanzi@mathstodon.xyz @peterwoit@mathstodon.xyz @mc@mathstodon.xyz I am sorry to be a stick in the mud here but chess is not a metaphor for mathematics, it literally is a mathematical object in itself. saying that chess is a bad metaphor for mathematics is much like saying that the monster group is a bad metaphor for mathematics. rather, and more positively, I would suggest that chess is a rather small fragment of mathematics, making it perhaps possible to get modest insight into how mathematics works by studying it.