First of all, you need to see math as an instrument, as the teaspoon is important, when you need to eat a very tasty cake in a fancy restaurant.
Since the early Greek studies concerning geometry and algebra till the nowadays theories studies about infinity and strings, math meant the progress in all fields as: computers science, medicine, architecture, economy etc.
Imagine, if the math doesn't exist, the computers science couldn't exist, and you couldn't launch the question and receive an answer from your PC or Notebook. Do you agree?