A large number of people, myself included, are quite concerned about mathematics. They are intimidating because they are absolute, even more so than science. Post modernists especially hate mathematics. Who started the second world war is a question with many answers, most with some grain of truth, though not the total perspective. In mathematics, the formulas work every time. They are absolutely and irrefutably correct. There is no room for negotiation. There is no way to deconstruct 2+2=4 in such a way that it equals 5.