No, you can do the same in math. It just means ignoring the proofs and just using the theorems as they are. However sometimes the application and proof requires

No, you can do the same in math. It just means ignoring the proofs and just using the theorems as they are. However sometimes the application and proof requires similar ways of thinking, and you kind of miss out by skipping the proof. But the same can be occasionally true for software engineering.