I like to keep things very simple. If you were to go to the MacTutor database and see the math in all it's glory laid out there as a gift to mankind, which it is, the pinnacle of man's mental achievements which include physics and less philosophy but some and some metaphysics such as Pascal's wager, and Pascal's Amulette, and Georg Cantor who says he got it all from God while he was in the mountains, where Hilbert the Great, said "No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us".
And calculus which reads like Chinese and most of math which reads like Chinese to think that all of it can be reduced to 2 plus 2 equals 4, but also 4 minus 2 equals 2, since after writing my own long number calculator to test the RAND random numbers to see if they could be compressed which they cannot since they are truly random, once you realize that all of math reduces to addition and subtraction only, it all seems to make sense. Where multiplication is serial addition, and division is serial subtraction, it shows how creative our minds are that using these two simple concepts, we can create our own ideas of what a universe is, and how it works.
And more than that, we can find truth. Always people will try to make the argument that truth is subjective and may not exist at all while quantum talking, and form religious views like string theory, which is based on belief alone, never tested, never proven,.
However there is truth in math, and without it even physics turns into religion. The wordage is like religion, but since physics is based on experiment, it doesn't matter at all what you say, what you think, what you believe, as long as the math is there to consistently prove that when repeated by others, it is always the same. Such that experiment combined with math can transmit truth from one mind to another without an Inquisition.
Imagine what we have accomplished in computers alone with A.I. passing the Turing test, and A.I. graphics also with agents passing the same test visually. It boggles the mind but only by standing on the shoulders of giants, like Hilbert, Cantor, Turing, and Newton who said after writing The Principia, "If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants"
that is what we have all done in these sciences, and what we will continue to do in the future, build on concepts that were formed in minds like our own, surpassing our abilities as an individual.
In philosophy The Chinese Room argument of John Searle absolutely brilliant, and what is it like to be a bat, Thomas Nagel, well without math we would be asking what is it like to be like you, talking to other humans, since only through some intimate language we share, mathematics, are we able to pin down commonality and to build on the work of others.