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by agensaequivocum 1993 days ago
> I would argue that this is wrong. That's what physicists do, not mathematicians. Mathematics is about abstract ideas, which can live regardless of nature or application. Physics instead is about understanding nature.

I would disagree. They both are the study of nature just different aspects of it. Mathematics is the study of the some of the more universal formal causes, while Physics also involves the particular material causes.