Even if we narrow math to numbers, what many people thing of as "math", we quickly move from arithmetic to patterns. The patterns of repetitions of single thin

Even if we narrow math to numbers, what many people thing of as "math", we quickly move from arithmetic to patterns. The patterns of repetitions of single things, repetitions over different things, repetitions between different things, repetitions over repetitions, ... Natural/counting numbers are just the simplest patterns of repetition.