MATHEMATICS is concerned with PATTERNS. And the "heart" of MATHEMATICS is expressed by the homology (PL):

	algorithm: human:: computer program: computer

The algorithm is a tactic for mathematics. But, "translated", it can become a strategy for LIFE. And a strategy, further "translated", can become a prosthetic for the "thinking reed", as mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal (1623-62), labeled the typically hapless born-nekkid human.

                                
                                  ALGORITHM
                                     /\
                                    /  \
                                   /    \
                                  /      \
                                 /        \
                                /          \
                               /  PATTERN   \
                              /              \
                             /                \
                   STRATEGY /__________________\ PROSTHETIC

Explication of this is AN AGENDA FOR A GENERATION!