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Simple additive/subtractive arithmetic aside, Mathematics is an accident that occurred roughly around 3000 BCE when ancient Babylonian and Egyptian Kings and landlords hired a bunch of priests to develop a mechanism by which the boundaries of a plot of land could be precisely determined so as to remedy ownership disputes, even in the face of the seasonal floods that caused the landscape to change due to erosion; all the while pouring the foundation of the academic discipline from the seeds of religious superstition.
From then till the advent of the the Classical Greek period in 400 BCE, a total of some 2600 years, the field of Mathemetics remained a diverse hydra that belonged nowhere, yet had features ranging from elementary algebra to applied monkey measuring. When it was ``threatened'' by external and internal perception the discipline pretended the measure-monkey part wasn't there, or re-framed everything as some divine theism, or granite pyramid-ism by pretending it was the will of the gods.
Euclid worked his ass off to make the ``mathematician'' title fashionable, but still some people had insecurities of being even close to the formulae as if it would invoke the wrath of Hades himself! The most important scrolls and tablets that defined the field at the time CONTAINED FORMULAE
NUFF SAID.
Eventually, after many further centuries of strife and struggle, most of humanity got over it. It was only then that the field, originally mistaken to be
'γεω-μετρία, but in reality
`(γεω μετρία) (or `(geo metria), or `(Earth measurement)) evolved to take on the modern catch-all name
'mathematics.
Moral of the story: Humanity still needs to get over the insecurity of dealing with computation and recognize the field for what it truly is. This includes you.