<p>Actually, in each of the fields you mention there is a wide range of activities, some of which ARE rocket science, in a sense, and others of which are almost entirely math-free.</p>
<p>Finance is an area which has been largely taken over by math types. You don’t necessarily need a lot of math – I have worked as a lawyer on finance projects my whole career, and I have seen very little that required more than basic algebra to understand – but there are a lot of very mathy people in the field, and some of them do very sophisticated things.</p>
<p>Investment banking is part of the finance world.</p>
<p>“Political science” is a purely academic activity. People who work in politics often have no understanding of math beyond basic statistics, if that. On the other hand, if you are going to be doing serious work with polling or demographic strategies, you are going to be dealing with advanced math. Game theory IS math.</p>
<p>Business, other than finance, generally requires no more math than is taught in middle school. Not even that much, maybe. But it often does require some facility with numbers. In business, people often use numbers to communicate, to set targets, to make the case for what they want to do. Depending on how math-phobic you are, that may oppress you. And that goes double for accounting.</p>
<p>Here’s something to consider: Many people who are turned off by math in school get turned on to math later. Either because they see how it is used out in the real world, and that matters to them, and gives them the motivation they need to learn more, or because higher-level math deals with problems that are very different from Algebra I or Pre-Calc. It is lots of very careful logic layered step by step into complex, beautiful patterns; it isn’t so much plugging numbers into formulas and performing calculations.</p>