Are Numbers Real?

[vulcanlogician]

The answer to the question depends on what you mean by real.

Without opening a whole new can of worms, let's just put the question like this: Is math something we create or something we discover? If it is something that we discover, then that implies it has "an existence" of some sort or another, independent of our perceptions.

I suppose another way of framing the question could be: Does math make truth statements? That is, does math make objectively verifiable claims? It could be argued that it does.