Full Idea
Simplification through mathematisation is the process that normally goes under the heading of modelling and idealisation in philosophy of science.
Gist of Idea
Idealised modelling is better seen as mathematised simplification
Source
Mazviita Chirimuuta (The Brain Abstracted [2024], 4.1)
A Reaction
Her main thesis is that science can't avoid simplifying nature in its attempts to explain it. I would have thought that some idealised modelling involves mechanisms rather than mathematics.
Book Reference
Mazviita Chirimuuta: 'The Brain Abstracted' [MIT 2024], p.93