How come math is universal when language and alphabets are not?
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Maths is not universal. Even within English-speaking places we can’t agree on what it is called.
On the whole the key elements are pretty similar, but that’s at least partly because maths is a fairly specialist area, where consistency across borders is useful (and you tend not to get as many opportunities for local variants). Plus it tends not to be that language-specific to begin with; it is much easier to share terms and expressions when they’re not dependent on a local language. Essentially maths has its own language that it uses, rather than each language needing its own terms.
That said, there are still all sorts of differences between languages and cultures.
For example, some places use commas (,) when writing decimals, rather than the dot (.) used in other places. So 3,14159… rather than 3.14159…
You might have heard of a thing called “PEMDAS” for remembering which order operations happen in, but in some places they use “BIDMAS” – ultimately it gets the same result, but the way it is done is different.
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