Where do numbers come from?

[K-mac]

A while ago i was studying for The GRE and i had a tutor. I asked him a question and i am not so sure i am satisfied with the answer.
Where do numbers come from? Not the symbols that are used to represent them, but the concept that math exists.
The answer i was given was that people are just hardwired to see that numbers are there. He tried to explain that some people believed that the reason we see them as well as equations and math/physics as true is because numbers fit nicely and help to explain things.

I call B.S. on his statements.
How is it that math came about?
Are we really just hardwired to believe those things?