I don't know what any of those are but I know how to write 15 nested for loops and let it run for a few minutes. Hacking code seems fine if that's what someone knows...
So I know 6 programming languages, maybe 600 libraries, devops, dozens of tools.
So I could go back to math class and learn some more formal proofs. What part of my programming knowledge am I going to drop to learn that? Will it actually help my career?
I have found little to no use for advanced mathematics in 10 years of programming. I am not saying it had no use, but I have not needed it.
Most academic types majorly overestimate the usefulness of math in programming. I can code circled around people who rock out at math.
I don't mean to demean your programming experience or toolkit decisions in anyway. Egg on my face--it appears that's how it was received! Let me try again.
> I have found little to no use for advanced mathematics in 10 years of programming.
I reckon you use or stumble upon the algorithms often, perhaps all the time. Be it with Boolean logic, or network design, or optimal stopping, or fuzzy matching, or statistics in logging, or what have you. These principles show up often. My point wasn't you can't or shouldn't be able to code circles around people who rock out at math, but that maths education often fails to emphasize the logical methods of figuring things out from first principles over the already solved proofs, methods, or equations.
> Most academic types majorly overestimate the usefulness of math in programming.
To some degree, I agree here. If there are well developed libraries and mature paradigms needed (RDBMS, web dev, etc.) then there is little need for mathematical forte. Nothing wrong with that!