He decided to stay in his space suit; explosive decompression didn’t appeal to him. Come to think about it, death from old age was his choice. - Robert A. Heinlein

Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand.

“What is a ‘hunch’?”
“Eh? It’s a belief that something is so, or isn’t so, without evidence.”
“I’d call a hunch the result of automatic reasoning below the conscious level on data you did not know you possessed.”

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.