Actually yes, but it does depend on the way it is taught.
At school, math was one of my favourite subjects, if only because it was easy and I didn't have to work much for it.
At university, I'm still good in the slightly-toned-down maths lectures for computer scientists, but I tried some math lectures for mathematicians at first, and those are hard. I'm actually sure I could do it with enough work, but it's just no fun the way they do it there. In the lecture, I was swamped with proofs in a speed such that I could barely take notes and nothing is explained in a meaningful way - it's just proven, step by step, with mathematical methods and noone cares what it really means when put together. Due to the massive flood of data, the expected method to deal with it was just learning formulas and algorithms by heart and applying them. Instead of questioning and trying to understand, you're expected to take it in, accept it and use it, like a computer. I actually felt like that way of thinking was dumbing me down instead of enhancing my analytical abilities. I suspect that that sort of Maths might be better suited to Ti and Si than to Ni and Te.