let me just put it this way:

when i was 12 years old, i got to do a stint of some kind of work experience at the Department of Primary Industries, in my home town of Toowoomba

i was being supervised by a guy who wrote simulators for crops that models rainfall, genetics, etc... his main go-to language was Forth

if you know Forth, it's like one step away from Assembler

in my time there i learned a bit about C and Lisp, lisp was very cool, but for doing math, the C and Forth were the best options back then (1988)

it's not that i'm some kind of a fanatic about the language i prefer, it's literally really easy for doing this kind of work, easy syntax, you will probably grasp it mostly straight away, and everything as regards to mathematics is very explicit, though if you need to do work with sets, you have to write your own stuff, and scaling it up gets complicated because of thread safety with maps, and the last point is not only simple, but fast