TL;DR maths exists if you believe in it or not.
TL;DR maths exists if you believe in it or not.
Now we have gone from that to the present day when we have maths which aren’t yet found to align with physical reality. So I can see why people want to say that it is a mental construction. But still, even these abstract maths operate according to rules we derived from the physical universe.
As a physicist myself, I’ll tell you that there isn’t a single one which believes that the universe doesn’t operate according to knowable rules. That’s kinda the definition of what it means to be a physicist.
It’s not at all clear that the Law of the Excluded Middle is an intrinsic part of the universe.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10127
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=701
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25227/using-the-multivers...