It is unclear to me why this rant was necessary. The field of applied mathematics and other mathematical modeling sub-fields seems to be what the author means w

It is unclear to me why this rant was necessary. The field of applied mathematics and other mathematical modeling sub-fields seems to be what the author means when he talks of mathematics as science and of mathematical truths. His criticism would have been much more salient if applied mathematics weren't thriving today more than ever--with the explosion of computational power every field now seeks to make evermore complex mathematical models of the problems they study and solve.