My father was a mathematician -- well-known in his field (modular forms was one of his research fields). He was also "wordy" but approached it in a very logical way
. He liked to watch TV, and if a word was used dubiously, liked to look up its precise meaning in a thesaurus. He also also wrote poetry, and loved Shakespeare.
However, I would have to say that math was his outstanding gift; I guess at a certain point you will want to concentrate on one subject or the other. I'm sure Noam Chomsky was very good at math, but after a while, he made the move into linguistics, and this is what he's known for.
