Exactly. Mathematics built Western civilization.
Mathematics did not build anything. Math is just a tool used by people to create. Math has always existed since creation. Man only discovered it. Just as fractals have always existed. Our technology and abilities to understand have only recently discovered them. Was it Bill Gates who said that DNA contains a software program more complex than anything man has ever done. Within DNA is a code, a language. Intelligence does not spring from nothing nothingness.It is created.