Comment by huurtehoog

I think this passage is more about the fact that mathematics is a form of symbolic computation people create and it is weirdly congruent to the physical measurements and models of reality. Not that mathematicians see certain models and objects used in physical models in a favorable way. What favor even means here?

It is quantifiable: several mathematical objects and categories people invented to do symbolic computation in letters and published papers are somehow very useful to model and understand data from physical measurements of reality.

I highly recommend reading the "Unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" essay by Wigner:

https://www.hep.upenn.edu/~johnda/Papers/wignerUnreasonableE...