>>11650458Human beings were walking around back in the day and realized that they could line things up next to each other and if there was a partner for each object, then the objects were the "same" in some way.
So then they realized that they could make cuts on bones and wood and that was the same as lining things up next to each other.
Then they realized that they could organized themsleves based on these lines.
Several thousand years later, after humans had built civilization, they thought about the problem more deeply and realized that quantity is an intrinsic part of reality and that the primitive form of "lining things up" actually was a transcendental phenomenon of understanding quantity in a very rudimentary way.
They began studying lines and shapes and realized they could work with these objects in the same way they could line things up.
Then Plato and Pythagoras came around and blew everyone's nips off and said "It's all actually numbers" and everyone was like "holy shit you're right!"
So that actual question, OP, is
"What ISN'T math?".
