Narlikar, J. V.2012-03-112012-03-111994-04-14http://hdl.handle.net/11007/1137This article highlights the important role mathematics has been playing in the development of physical sciences. Although its practitioners look upon mathematics as an art to be enjoyed for its aesthetic values, the subject has found applications in other disciplines. The physicists in particular have found mathematics indispensable to their search for the basic laws governing natural phenomena. The inputs provided by mathematics to physics will be illustrated by examples drawn from gravity and electrodynamics, from classical as well as quantum physics.enMathematicsPhysical sciencesAesthetic valuesGravity and electrodynamicsClassical and quantum physicsPhysicsArticle