Any pipe smoking math students/mathematicians out there?

Twenty five years ago my undergraduate degree was in mathematics, passed my actuarial exams, got an MBA, and now serve in leadership at a Fortune 50, overseeing healthcare economics.

I just finished my sophomore year. I'm focusing in on statistics and modeling, and beginning to look for actuarial exams.

I'm a mathematical dyslexic (I know, misnomer) but have always been interested in the relationship between mathematical talent and musical talent, which is, it seems, pronounced. I've also always been intrigued by the fact that the intellectual performance of mathematics is mirrored in the universe of physics and biology, etc. To such a degree that if mathematical proofs in astrophysics for example, are done correctly, they are true in the physical universe, in fact. I guess illustrating that galaxies and brain circuitry are made of the same stuff.

I was a math major in college in the 1980s, and tried the linguistics department as a possible minor before getting disappointed with the professors' philosophical naïveté, and tired of Chomsky's arrogant dominance of the field. My mathematics interest came about via epistemology and the foundations of mathematics (I read a lot of philosophy on my own before college). So logic and set theory are what brought me in, not any interest in applying math to science. I loathed calculus, and leapfrogged second year calculus to take topology and abstract algebra. I was also interested in category theory, through the work of the great Saunders Mac Lane. To me, 'structure' is one of the most beautiful words in the language. I'm a fan of Bourbaki. Now, I'm just a math dilettante, and algebra is what I have the strongest interest in, although because I'm such a dabbler and have many other intellectual interests, I haven't given it much attention recently. I have quite the collection of math books, which now probably reeks of tobacco smoke.