Saw a fascinating documentary once describing how the British submarine used some early sound detection technology to predict the German U-boat’s zig-zag pattern, and then, doing a quick calculation, fired its torpedo so that it would run into the U-boat as it, in effect, “turned into it” ... it was quite an accomplishment in the early days of sonar technology ...
The Brit who figured out where to fire that torpedo was probably very with good basic math and excelled with geometry.