Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

I've been a professor of mathematics at Harvard and at Yale. At Yale for a long time. But I'm not a mathematician only. I'm a professor of physics, of economics, a long list. Each element of this list is normal. The combination of these elements is very rare at best.

Order doesn't come by itself.