Note especially the image "the calculating paradigm": https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/wG_lVbOftwaPOzjxlhT-6V5...

All magic is supposed to work on this principle: one starts with a real-world problem, applies some ("sympathetic") correspondences to arrive at a magical representation, and manipulates that representation ("pins in the voodoo doll") in order to apply it and result in a real-world action.

However, mathematics seems to be the only* subset of magic where the (in the case of mathematics: Galois) correspondence back to the real world proves effective!

* marketers and politicians may disagree