>>11326953>Physics is problem solving and maths is problem creation.Pretty hot, but wrong take. Math is both finding new problems and solving problems. Physics is trying to formulate as mathematics problems which aren't necessarily mathematical. The physicist does this to hopfully make it easier to solve them. Sometimes the mathematicians have already thought of (what you call to create) these problems, and sometimes they have already solved them as well! And as nice as these mathematicians are, if the physicist is so lucky to make completely new mathematics from a physics problem, then the mathematicians will be very grateful, and they will gladly help the physicist to solve it. Mathematicians just love problems! Both to find new and to solve. If finding new problems means that they need to take a look at physical problems, so be it. They will help the physicist with the translation part just to get hold of some fresh new problems. But what they won't help with is the act of gathering empirical data. That the physicist will need to do alone. And the mathematicians has been very kind and certainly deserves to reserve themselves from this as they cannot do everything.
