[tubby12345]

>As a math grad, I think you had the advantage of having a lot more theory.

The funny thing is that I didn't. I sucked exactly at the kind of combinatorics (figured that out in the first few weeks of stats where you have to count things cleverly), graph theory type stuff during my math BS and so I avoided all of it. I excelled at analysis but CLRS has very little of that (maybe a couple of sections on convergence of numerical algos?).

What I did have was "mathematical maturity" enough to read proofs, but like I said there are so few that it doesn't matter IMHO.