Agreed. Most people don't see how mathematics is applicable because they think of it as a framework for calculation, when mathematics is really much more about

Agreed. Most people don't see how mathematics is applicable because they think of it as a framework for calculation, when mathematics is really much more about proofs. In addition, most people never learn more than calculus (if that), so they have no concept of what real world problems can be elegantly reduced to mathematical restatements. It's like the difference between calculus and analysis.