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How did the shift from constructed mathematical objects to modern mathematics occur?
"[E]ntities no longer need to be constructed or computed in order to be named and manipulated; they simply need to exist" – existence is not the only thing to prove, though; the other thing is uniqueness. That is, you need to prove that something exists and is unique – hence it is well-defined, it can be manipulated, you can explore its properties etc., without an explicit construction.