Were I a mathematician, I would be the very first of my kind

Were I a mathematician, I would be the very first of my kind. Initially, people would dismiss me and my ideas as pure insanity and pure useless abstractions, but as time would go on, people would finally understand what I was all about. All these exotic ideas would end up being extremely useful at solving extremely specific and exotic problems, and people would eventually try to follow in my footsteps.