One of my old professors used to say ‘Physics is the supreme court of all science. And Math is the lawyer’.
“And Math is the lawyer”
Here’s how I see it. Math is used to predict observed behavior. An object speeds up when dropped. Math predicts such behavior with v=at give or take relativistic effects which are measurable and make the behavior-predictig formulas more complicated.
Missing from the article are the behaviors that mathematicians are trying to describe.
A mathematician told me math doesn’t really explain anything.
A money and power grubbing defendant such as Mr. Anthropomorphic Global Warming would be better served representing themselves than hiring a lawyer that can't lie with a straight face. Math is more the law than a lawyer.