[jhedwards]

It's not self-evidently untrue, this is an incredibly complex philosophical question with no easy "right answer". There is also a spectrum of positions about this.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good resource for reading about this topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/#Ob...

Edit: another good link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/