What have I done all these years,
Counting the numbers down and up,
The number of push up at every thrust,
Radium laced hands showed me the dots.
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yes, the numbers are abstract. When the numbers have tried to rule the emotions, our life has changed dramatically to accommodate the mathematics that has been stuffed into our life without our knowledge...For example with out 0 and 1, we wouldn't have developed this much telecommunication wise just like that we and ours are numbered in most of the fields adding additional factors as you, jasbir Chatterfee, have mentioned here..A normal person should be mathematically intelligent not be the master of mathematics to lead a happy and healthy life such as knowing their heart rate, counting the numbers of pecks and cigarettes, why our legs are suddenly getting numb and many more. Totally our life is riddled with many kinds of numbers...
It's a nice poem...But Mathematics is not all about numbers...It's a lot more complex subject involving a lot of abstract theories and trying to make things fall into some kind of symmetrical pattern...one theory leads to another and that's how we build up things in Mathematics...
This is great! Numbers are what we relate with daily. Thanks for sharing