Isn't the basic math largely driven by attempts to understand and quantify the world around us? In such case, it depends on more universal concepts like distanc

Isn't the basic math largely driven by attempts to understand and quantify the world around us? In such case, it depends on more universal concepts like distance, time, speed, acceleration etc. Concepts which I would imagine to be familiar to any intelligent being that takes a physical form. I can't imagine an alien wondering about a period of a pendulum and arriving at an answer that's really different from ours.