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by vacheron 2001 days ago
As someone who has formal degrees in Math, I believe this is mostly because the programming Math students do is extremely tedious and simply not enjoyable. In school we were making graphs in Matlab/Octave/Mathematica/R which I think most programmers would not like. Maybe some used Python if they were lucky. Coding visualizations, solving matrices or convex optimizations in Mathematica is not exactly inspiring.