capt. solipsist, I am certainly no mathematics professor but may I suggest one flaw in your argument. Mathematics, like all physical laws, is really just a way to describe how the universe functions, but before the universe there were no physical laws and no mathematics, nothing can be involved in the creation of itself. Of course I hear you saying then where did God come from? God is eternal, only something that has a beginning in time needs a cause and since God created time along with the universe He is outside of it and not governed by it.
Ultimately science has no hope of discovering how the universe was created as real science requires observation and experimentation in the present. All we have in the present is this universe and no matter what we discover, be it quantum mechanics or string theory, they will always be part of this universe and as has already been stated nothing can be involved in the creation of itself.