If that was the intention, I think the title and content should have more clearly expressed that. I’m unclear on what the significant difference is between theory and empirics in math; I think most of the value in distinguishing between theoretical and empirical research comes from highlighting the inability to simply “use data or counter-examples to falsify/test a hypothesis”—but in this case, that doesn’t apply.
I think this post applies mainly to mathematical theoretical research, I’m not sure it generalizes well to other kinds of theory work.
If that was the intention, I think the title and content should have more clearly expressed that. I’m unclear on what the significant difference is between theory and empirics in math; I think most of the value in distinguishing between theoretical and empirical research comes from highlighting the inability to simply “use data or counter-examples to falsify/test a hypothesis”—but in this case, that doesn’t apply.