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Why is math so important for physics?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Button of Creativity in Math

In your book, mathematicians don't come up with proofs. It comes intuition and rigor comes later. Mathematicians are very proud of being able to have absolute proof in a way that scientists cannot. In math, theorems that were proven thousands of years ago are still true. You all want something. But we don't do a great job in our textbooks or lecturing at conveying that.

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