Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
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One of my physics lecturers at university made the offhand observation that the distinction between physics and mathematics is a twentieth-century idea: it wasn't made during the nineteenth century or before, and it seems to be disappearing in the twenty-first.
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Math probably split off a bit because of the attempts at formalization. That was a useful tangent though, arguably giving us computer science via the lambda calculus, Turing machines, etc.
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