So, you disagree with my comment because you think I'm right?

Those students he was reassuring, did they think math was nothing but proofs?

Haha, sort of. I guess I disagree with your claim the majority of people think math is "more" than proof. The majority of people think it's less: they think it's doing high school arithmetic. Most people don't know what a proof or a theorem are. They think math is doing calculations with numbers.