There's a quote about the relationship between physicist, mathematicians/engineers that I'm blanking on and have been trying to find/remember -- it goes something like this: Physicists are concerned with discovering and understanding the fundamental laws underpinning the structure of things while mathematicians/engineers are interested in discovering all the possible worlds that could follow from the fundamental laws physicists discover. Does anyone here remember how that goes?

Reminds me of how the AlphaGo imstance that trained against human experts was equalled or bested by the version that just bootstrapped by playing against itself. (With the math side being analagous to the self-trained instance)

Not really true. In fact it is wrong.

Let us start with Geometry. The sum of angles of a triangle is >, = or < 180 degrees. Is it possible maths describe the world. No. Maths covers all ground. Unless the universe is illogical, even if the world is multi-verse still only one rule.

The maths provide what human can understand logically. Universe can be a total mystery, inconsistent or just one of the possible maths world.

Do note the issue godel and hence there might be hiles even in maths world.

Whilst we have faith do nite the issue of dark energy and matter etc. No one guarantee everyone is ok.