Doing mathematics and furthering human understanding is great. The problem is that no one wants to tell you how the sausage is made . It’s mainly on the backs of graduate students that have no chance of being professors. The ones that know how to code go into competition with people that have Bachelors in CS and four years of work experience . The good ones can land a Data science job . The ones that can’t become adjuncts forever in some community college. There are fewer and fewer that can win this rich mans game .