[Waterluvian]

I'm sorry if this isn't your intent but the way you structured your comment comes off as very condescending.

Aside from that, I'm also skeptical that the frequency in which these maths apply to practical, commercial programming is really that high.

Im not anti math or something. I just think the practical value gets way over sold by some people. And sometimes it feels like it's because of the dislike of "those who can call themselves programmers by trade."

[codesushi42]

It is an incredibly important foundation for analyzing any kind of data. That is a need that crosses many different fields, be it sales forecasting, quantitative finance, econometrics, deep learning, signal processing, any sort of scientific computing etc.

I would be more interested in hearing an argument about why math knowledge is not useful or lucrative.

[chrisbroadfoot]

If anything, I think the practical value of mathematics is generally undersold. It seems OK if some people tend to oversell it.