The hard part about math is that math relates to the real world - it’s why we study it. Yet, instead of being empirical, it’s produced by almost pure logic plus

The hard part about math is that math relates to the real world - it’s why we study it. Yet, instead of being empirical, it’s produced by almost pure logic plus some magical axioms and definitions revolving around things that don’t actually exist. The pure logic is easy enough and the empirical/practical part isn’t so bad, but it’s really unclear how or why the two relate so conveniently Eg, everything we know about linear algebra comes from arbitrary definitions and axioms that were chosen so that the operations would have real world use. Outside of math, this is called fantasy, scamming, religion, conspiracy theory, etc. It isn’t a good way to form ideas except when it’s math, and it’s really unclear why the results of this practice can help us send somebody to space successfully