When you say "do the math", what do you have in mind?

Set theory? General topology? Functional analysis? Differential geometry? Game theory? Queue theory? Euclidean geometry? Any other geometry? Trigonometry? Complex analysis? Theory of differential equations? Number theory? Boolean algebra? Fuzzy logic? Probability? Galois groups? Field theory? Vector spaces? Tensors? Linear algebra?

Now do the psychology and find the answer.