Eli5 How mathematicians figured out that they can link math to the real world?

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I still don’t understand how mathematicians use math in the real world and how they figure this out

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* Math is just another language used to describe the real world.
* It’s not that there was math and separately the real world and someone discovered that math could work with it, but rather over time people developed a way to describe amounts of things in the world.
* If anything, the discovery was that math that was developed to describe the way one real world thing works, also was found to describe how a totally different real world thing works.
* But what the really means is that there are fundamental concepts that govern how the whole real-world works, and math can be used to describe them too.

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