You are not exactly right. FYI, Newtonian mechanics = differential equations and calculus. And more advanced Lagrangian mechanics is a reinterpretation of the s

You are not exactly right. FYI, Newtonian mechanics = differential equations and calculus. And more advanced Lagrangian mechanics is a reinterpretation of the same ideas. I'm almost sure that Calculus was created by people like Newton in responce to the needs of mechanics and physics. The fact that the program is implemented by using " just addition, subtraction, multiplication" is irrelevant, because this is how computers (and mathematical numerical methods) work. For many great mathematicians the difference between math and physics is almost non-existent. You may also read this guy, btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold