[InclinedPlane]

For me I found that having an education in math made me a better scientist, and being a better scientist made me a better developer. Having a background in mathematics makes you very sensitive to when and where assumptions get made, as well as very exacting about the line of reasoning between evidence and conclusions. It's surprising how common unchallenged assumptions can be in science, but in development work it's practically a disease. Troubleshooting and root cause analysis are extremely important parts of dev work, and it's amazing how bad the average dev is at it. Prone to jumping to conclusions and ready to blame the usual suspects even when the evidence doesn't match.