To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

The mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to make a good career in America as a mathematician. So I... became officially a student of mathematics. And in the end I had learned and progressed so much in mathematics that they gave me an M.S. in addition to my B.S. when I graduated.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics