Abstract
Plato was right: mathematics is the study of the Forms. He may not have been entirely right, for instance, about what the Forms are, or about when and where they are to be found. Yet he was not entirely wrong either. In fact, he was quite right about the most important things. Mathematics does deal with properties and relationships, patterns and structures: things which can be instantiated by many, very diverse things, and so, things which qualify as universals.