Math is Not the Study of Numbers

A different take on the meaning of math

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I can’t believe that teachers don’t tell you this, but math is not the study of numbers. We haven’t been lied to, but it’s like we all collectively forgot what the real point of math is.

At some point in geometry class, you probably had to prove that two triangles were congruent to each other. One way is to show that…