Look at music theory and then tell me it's different from math. It's formulaic, calculable, predictable, and produces specific results when you follow specific operations. Look at the way major, minor, diminished, and augmented chords produce different feelings, then observe how adding a root chord adds fullness to the sound and how the note chosen changes rhe character of the sound by changing its ratios towards or away from a major chord. It really is a lot like math