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The Second Edition of Courant & Robin's 'What is Mathematics?', revised by Ian Stewart is good. This is from the preface:

" In short, it wanted to put the meaning back into mathematics. But it was meaning of a very dif- ferent kind from physical reality, for the meaning of mathematical ob- jects states "only the relationships between mathematically 'nndefined objects' and the rules governing operations with them." It doesn't matter what mathematical things are: it's what they do that counts. "

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas...