There seems to be a philosophy about this that math isn't important for physical theories. For example, Wallace Thornhill, the electric universe guy, seems to DESPISE the notion that a physical theory should have a complete mathematical description.

At the extreme other end, Max Tegmark is an extreme Platonist and he literally believes that reality IS mathematics and "physical things" are just abstraction for what is actually happening which is pure formula and mathematical structures. That is, there is no such thing as a "hydrogen atom", that's just an metaphor for humans, in reality there is just a mathematical structure/formula computing in a platonic computation and we humans are "self aware substructures" who are also mathematical objects doing computation in a platonic reality.

What do you think about this?