reallydontknow2

What is your operational definition of wealth?

As I see mathematics as somewhat like the act of traversing, exploring, and constructing a hypergraph built fundamentally of pointers where the cliques and common paths are named simply for economical reasons for quick addressing, it clearly can increase the probability of doing great science no matter what field you are.

I'd still say that you can still do great science although you do not know the formal language of mathematics, but the probability of getting to the position of doing the science today is harder because we have more aggressive naked alpha monkeys protecting their turfs from those they see less worthy of joining the adventure.