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There is a long tradition, considerably longer than the sceptical tradition I was trained in, that holds the opposite view with remarkable consistency across cultures and centuries. The Pythagoreans, and yes, we mean Pythagoras himself, the same man whose theorem you learned at school, working in southern Italy in the sixth century BCE, believed that numbers were not merely useful abstractions but the actual substance of reality.
Numerology has fascinated humanity for thousands of years because it invites us to see numbers as more than simple tools for counting. We use numbers to measure time, calculate distances, understand the physical universe, and organise almost every aspect of modern life.