Mathematics is not, except on the most superficial of levels, about numbers.

I don't have any context for this, it's just something I felt like saying.

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@trwnh I feel like, while the language of mathematics may be logic, especially when you get right down to axiomatic formulations, math itself is more about relations and transformations that either preserve relations or generate new relations

@trwnh Algebra is primarily about relations and transformations that preserve relations, while calculus is more about transformations that generate new relations

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