> Human perception of color is certainly a matter of biology. Of course it is. The mathematics is a model of human biology (in terms of the effects of interact

> Human perception of color is certainly a matter of biology. Of course it is. The mathematics is a model of human biology (in terms of the effects of interactions with different colours of light). Mathematical models of the underlying electromagnetic phenomenon known as light already existed in the 19th century, but that's very different from the problem at hand.