The study of math in language is called semiotic, and thanks to a bunch of french poseurs it’s become a joke word among the genuinely intellectually curious. Nevertheless, attempts have been made to tie it all together, most notably by the brilliant and mostly forgotten Charles S. Peirce.

Whence the pragmatic maxim:

  Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

Pragmatically speaking, math is no more or less real than that.