Mathematics is a mode of being. It is not numerical, but on the contrary, the numerical derives from mathematical thinking.
Mathematics is a game played according to certain rules with meaningless marks on paper.
Mathematics is a field that it seems capable of endowing men with something like a new sense.
Mathematics is a challenge to free will, which is entirely unnecessary in determining that twice two is four.
Mathematics is a development of thought that had its beginning with the origin of man and culture a million years or so ago. To be sure, little progress was made during hundreds of thousands of years.
Mathematics is a proof of the existence of an immortal soul, because mathematical theorems are not obtained from experience and so must accompany the soul into existence.