Question

Hello Rabbi,
I know that what I want to devote myself to primarily is Torah/Jewish law and philosophy. Still, I’m considering going to study for a degree in mathematics (alongside philosophy), even though that would require a major investment of time and effort, and I have no plan to work in the field. The considerations are roughly these:
A. Study for its own sake—that is, this seems to me to be something that has value to know in and of itself. It also interests me.
B. The instrumental value of becoming familiar with very creative and interesting modes of thought that you don’t really find in other fields, which might perhaps influence my Torah/philosophy/anything else that I study.
C. It opens access to the whole world of quantitative subjects (statistics, logic, probability, maybe physics) that might interest me in certain contexts, even if not as a primary occupation.
Beyond that, I’ll note that I suspect much of my desire to study mathematics comes from an intuition of the kind the Rabbi himself mentions from time to time—that truly intelligent people study mathematics/physics, and don’t make do with philosophy or even Talmudic analysis.
In practice, deep down I’m a bit doubtful about the considerations I’ve raised. One moment they seem reasonable to me, and the next moment they seem unserious, just stemming from the psychological reason I mentioned above or something along those lines. In the Rabbi’s opinion, are the considerations I raised above genuine considerations that should carry weight, or are they just nonsense—a waste of time that will cause me, for 3–4 years, to have much less time to study Torah?