No. That is relative reality.
Ultimate reality is emptiness. Numbers are also empty.
http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/emptiness.html
Emptiness in mathematics.
In mathematics the notion of emptiness finds expression in the
number zero, as well as in contemporary set theory. The concept of
zero was discovered in India prior to the sixth century A.D. The
"Arabic" number system we use today is neither Arabic nor Greek in
origin. In fact, the digits 0123456789 go back to India where they
were first created. The ancient Indian number system distinguished
itself from other positional systems by virtue of allowing the use
of zero as a legitimate number. Interestingly, the number zero did
not exist in Greek mathematics, because the Greeks were essentially
geometricians and had no use for the mathematical concept of a
non-entity, neither did it exist in Egyptian mathematics. The
Arabs, who encountered the Indian number system during their early
conquests in India, found it superior to their own traditional
system which used letters, and thus adapted it to develop Islamic
mathematics. The Arabic word for zero is "sifr", meaning "empty."
In the 12th century, the Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano
Fibonacci studied Arabian algebra and introduced the Hindu-Arabic
numerals to Europe. The word "sifr" thus became "zephirum" in Latin
and "zero" in English.
In the ancient Indian context, the number zero did not originally
refer to nothingness or nullity. The Sanskrit word for zero is
shunya, which means "puffed up, hollow, empty." The zero stands for
emptiness suggestive of potentiality. The discovery of the
mathematical zero concurred with the emptiness of prajna-intuition
in India around 200 BC. Both signify polar opposition between being
and nonbeing. Zero is that which contains all possible polarised
pairs such as (+1, -1), (+2, -2), etc. It is the collection of all
mutually cancelling pairs of forward and backward movements. Put it
another way, zero is fundamental to all existence. Because of it,
everything is possible. Zero is the additive identity, the focal
point of all numbers; without it, numbers cannot be created. India
alone, among the great civilisations of antiquity, was able to
fathom the depth of emptiness and willing to accept its
consequences in mathematics.
Following the introduction of the Hindu-Arabic numerals into
Western culture, zero became a number that was used in calculations
like any other number. Consequently, it lost some part of its
original meaning, namely the part that suggests potentiality.
Today, most mathematicians do not associate the notion of emptiness
with zero, but with the empty set, which is a construct of set
theory. A set is a collection of objects or numbers.
For example, the set { 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 } is a set of numbers
containing five elements; it is therefore said to have the
"cardinality" of 5. The empty set { } is a collection that contains
nothing and has the cardinality 0. The mathematician John von
Neumann (1923) invented a method, known as von Neumann hierarchy,
which can be employed to generate the natural numbers from the
empty set as follows:
Step 0: { } (empty set)
Step 1: { { } } (set containing the empty set)
Step 2: { { }, { { } } } (set containing previous two sets)
Step 3: { { }, { { } } , { { }, { { } } } } (set containing
previous three sets)
Step 4: { { }, { { } } , { { }, { { } } }, { { }, { { } } , { { },
{ { } } } } } (etc.)
This sequence is obtained by iterating a functor that creates a new
set from the union of the preceding two sets, thus generating sets
with the cardinalities 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ad infinitum. In less
mathematical terms, the principle can be described as follows:
Beginning with emptiness (step 0), we observe emptiness. Through
the act of observing we create an entity containing emptiness (step
1). Now we perceive emptiness, as well as an entity. From the
combination of the former two we create another entity by
observation, which is different from the first entity (step 2).
This process is repeated again and again. Interestingly, if we
define suitable operations on the obtained sets based on union and
intersection, the cardinalities of the resulting sets behave just
like natural numbers being added and subtracted. The sequence is
therefore isomorphic to the natural numbers - a stunningly
beautiful example of something from nothing.
