The equations are descriptive, and do not transcend the phenomena they describe.
As Laplace wrly noted, "Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration."
And as John Wheeler wrote ( paraphrasing) "If you describe the universe with equations and write them all down and put them in a room and tell them to fly, they will not take off and fly. The universe 'flies'."
Not to be contentious, but in the mind of a mathematician, the beauty of equations most certainly transcends the phenomena defined.
That a natural phenomena can be perfectly described by mathematics is magnificent. That humans can fathom such equations is even more magnificent and thereby transcendent.
Beholding an equation that explains a vast physical phenomenon is akin to seeing a Van Gogh painting of a field of wheat.
Van Gogh's interpretation in the abstract is matched by reality's abstraction (and our eyes' translation) of a natural phenomenon compared to the mathematical purity of the equation which defines it.
One must open his mind to beauty to see the artistry of mathematics. It is not for accountants and pedestrian humans.
It can be seen only by lovers of art. And those who do not love art cannot behold its loveliness (and rightly so).