Yeah, it definitely is. I'm not denying that they're fundamental, I have no reason to doubt that, I just think it's odd that they are so deeply embedded into e

Yeah, it definitely is. I'm not denying that they're fundamental, I have no reason to doubt that, I just think it's odd that they are so deeply embedded into everything, simple enough to kind of understand the basic idea of, and yet totally separate from everyday experience. Like, a construction worker may know hundreds of techniques. A painter uses hundreds of colors. A while many people likely only use four operations on real numbers their whole lives. Math is everywhere, essential for engineering, but almost totally hidden from most people. Probably just a consequence of how we kind of jumped straight from "experience and guesswork" to "Hire a pro if you want to build a barn and let them use computers" though.