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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:

> Mathematics is not a science then?

I don't know many trained Mathematicians who would consider it so.
Mathematics, like logic, is a key underpinning of science, but it is not
itself science.  The practice of doing the vast bulk of novel
mathematics does not follow the scientific method.

> There aren't proofs in *experimental* science, but proofs are the pure
> product of maths.

The term "experimental science" is a tortology.

> Where are the theorems of maths? 

The are theorems of maths.  Why should they be anything else.

> Are they in 3D space, experience time and gravity?

No.

> Or do they exist in a pure realm, where only concepts reign?

Yes.

> But if math objects do not exist in the "real" world, why does maths
> work so well in explaining reality?

See Eugene Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in
the Natural Sciences" 
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html

> Truth finding in experimental science is very close to maths. 

Yes.  But it is not maths.  Nor is maths experimental science.

> It is a very profound way of understanding the physical world when we
> can calculate the results of experiments before we do them.

Nevertheless, the predictions are science - the mathematics are not.