In fact, some relationships between physics and mathematics have long been studied. There are great differences between Chinese and western cultures, which involves the cognition of the ultimate problem. This paper makes a brief analysis of this. Mathematics is a kind of knowledge that human beings can rationally recognize. Descartes, the originator of western natural science, believes that "human beings should be able to use mathematical methods, that is, reason to carry out philosophical thinking." The difference between physics and mathematics needs further study.
Newton, the most famous person in the field of physics, pointed out in his published works that mathematics, which can be controlled by human reason, is regarded by westerners as knowledge to reveal the mysteries of the world and the essence of internal operation, and mathematics is the source of understanding everything. From this perspective, the end point of physics is mathematics. So, why do some people say that the end of mathematics is philosophy? Pythagoras reduced the ontology of the universe to a number. Descartes and Newton regard mathematics as an important way and tool for human beings to understand the principle of everything through rational thinking. Mathematics belongs to the category of methodology, or the ultimate goal of physics may be mathematics.
Some scholars have put forward the conclusion that physics is the origin and theology is the ultimate subject, which is the characteristic of western culture, and the reason why western culture has such a characteristic lies in the loss of western philosophical ontology. Philosophers can't understand the ultimate problem, so theology has a stage and theology has arisen.
Simply put, physics and mathematics are both physical artificial machines, that is, scientific fields, and mathematics is the ultimate of physics. But if it is in the field of natural forces, it is impossible to understand natural forces by relying on the decomposition model of mathematics, and mathematics is not the ultimate of physics. The difference between them needs more research.