Why are physics and math majors omnipresent in diverse research domains?

Question

When I search grad student profiles in CS and financial research groups, I often find that there are students who did their undergrads or even masters in mathematics or physics.Although they are in minority among a huge number of CS grads, but that is not the point. I don't find that many biology or chemistry majors being everywhere in such an interdisciplinary manner.What makes physics and math graduates so strong to work in wide variety of domains? What is the skillset they possess?

anigbrowl · Accepted Answer

Mathematics.Eugene Wigner - The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdfSocial Physics https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01866.pdfWir m&uuml;ssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

t-3 · Answer

I think it's more that they need jobs than possessing any special abilities. I get the impression that math and physics are hard to get jobs in specifically, and the low hanging fruit has all been plucked.

yababa_y · Answer

the skillset they possess is mathematics, and mapping symbolic models to real domains (universe, platonic realm)

stop50 · Answer

Everything is build ontop physics and math. randal Munroe made a Graphic that shows it perfectly https://xkcd.com/435/