Recondite

Abstruse, profound, secret (adj.)

Edward Maxon and Floyd Hackert, the first a professor of mathematics and the second a professor of archaeology. You wouldn't think that Maxon's abstract math had anything to do with Hackert's excursions to East Africa or the Fertile Crescent in the name of the fossil record. They don't see any similarities, either.
Hackert will say something like:
"I've never been good at math. I have graduate students for that."
Maxon will say something like:
"Why get dirty and search for lost relics whose significance we're most likely wrong about just to create a false history for ourselves?"

But look! Recondite all:

Maxon surveys axioms and sifts, pen in hand, through implications of myriads of definitions and unearths new things, true things, that are unknown and buried before he looks.
Hackert uses the present as a premise and observes dug up and secret variables, theorizing about the past behaviors of the human function at different points along the dense geometrical line of human time.