[sp4rki]

That really depends on what type of programming you're doing and the platform you're developing on top of. If you're doing a crud app in rails, I'd agree with you math itself is pretty much useless after knowing the core operations (add, subtract, etc...). But the moment you're dealing with lower lever programing, creating or implementing algorithms, managing memory, etc... understanding more advanced mathematical concepts starts to shine as a necessity more than an option plus. Actually, if you're developing a rails application for the financial or analytics sector you're most definitely benefit from knowing advanced math and having done a course or two on statistics.

Let's be honest, if you're creating an application to improve or help accounting of a business, you need to know accounting. If you're creating an application for banking and finances companies, you need to know financial math. If you want to make an app that converts a business' Excel data into complex charts you need to at least understand statistics and more complex math than the 15 year old learns in school. Don't even get me started on a program that draws graphics programmatically and the need for some trigonometry in there.

Lastly, though I do a lot of backend and sys admin stuff because of the nature of my speciality at work, I spend half my time doing frontend programming and css (thank god for sass), and if I didn't have knowledge of algebra and trig I would take at least half as much time to do what I do. I know (and work with) a bunch of great programmers, but I'm still the guy people go to at work for mathematical advise when al algorithm is not behaving as it should and it mathematically complex.

I'm not trying to argue with your point though, most of the time you don't need those advanced mathematical concepts, and the important part of learning math is the reasoning aspect. i completely agree with that. Nevertheless I've found that advanced concepts can speed development and in some cases having that knowledge can make or break a project.