I do a fair amount of statistics research. I'm not sure I've quite found my holy grail of math typeface (although I can think of a couple that come close in different ways), but computer modern / etc was never it for me.

I can totally see how it would feel sort of comforting though. I hadn't thought about it before but it does remind me of old Springer texts, and I could see how that would feel "homey" or something. This conversation has me kind of "resetting" my perspective on it a bit.