John von NeumannHungarian-American mathematician |
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.