>>14404792Mathematics is abstraction. It's a way of simplifying the chaotic multitude of phenomena and features in the world to a set of general principles they share. A week and a bushel of 7 bananas couldn't be more different, but they share the common feature of being instances of 7.
Mathematics is beautiful because it creates order from chaos, understanding from confusion, unity from fragmentation.
Mathematics is powerful because it simplifies complicated phenomena, and it unifies disparate ideas.
