It's very popular these days to see mathematics as one truth we can know is objectively and absolutely right. I must disagree. A common example of this supposed absolute and objective truth is the equation 2 + 2 = 4. We are told that for all times and places, 2 + 2 = 4, no matter what! If human beings went extinct, then 2 + 2 = 4 still holds as true. If the dinosaurs had the brains, then they would have known 2 + 2 = 4. If there's an advanced civilization of extraterrestrials in the Andromeda galaxy, then they know 2 + 2 = 4.
It's not true that 2 + 2 is absolutely 4. Depending on the rules mathematicians are using, 2 + 2 = 0 might be the case. In modular arithmetic, 2 + 2 might not even be defined at all much less true. For example, in binary there is no 2.
So the truth of 2 + 2 = 4 depends on what arbitrary set of rules you are using. No absolute or objective truth can be so arbitrary. Hence in general, mathematics is neither absolutely nor objectively "right."
It's not true that 2 + 2 is absolutely 4. Depending on the rules mathematicians are using, 2 + 2 = 0 might be the case. In modular arithmetic, 2 + 2 might not even be defined at all much less true. For example, in binary there is no 2.
So the truth of 2 + 2 = 4 depends on what arbitrary set of rules you are using. No absolute or objective truth can be so arbitrary. Hence in general, mathematics is neither absolutely nor objectively "right."