[EliRivers]

At risk of sounding like a passive-aggressive dickhead, is that what you think mathematics is?

Of course you don't think that, it was just me being a passive-aggressive dickhead, but putting aside me deserving a punch in the face, mathematics is about patterns and flow and repetition and singularities and mappings and transforms and logic and states and abstraction. Every program written is an expression of mathematical thought.

Kludging around with numbers is to mathematics what paint-by-numbers is to art.

[seanmcdirmid]

I agree, but K12 math is not very often taught like this. It is mostly taught paint by the numbers.

[smonff]

Also, the way you describe mathematics can sometimes look like contemporary art (here, I think to Fluxus for example).

For me saying programming is tied to maths mostly is not a good thing: you'll be a better programmer if you studied linguistics, art, sociology and gender studies around your math classes.

Historically, programing has mostly been teached to science students but as we are currently talking about it, it will change maybe.