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Quantum mathematics?

"Quantum" as a term/prefix used to be genuinely physical: what was supposed to be physically continuous turned out to be physically quantized.

What sense does this distinction make inside mathematics?

Especially: Is "quantum algebra" a well-chosen name? (According to Wikipedia, it's one of the top-level mathematics categories used by the arXiv, but it's not explained any further.)