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Discussion on: How important are math skills for software development?

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

It's not the math itself that is important.

It is the thinking you learn while you are learning math!

Will, you ever need to calculate Three-dimensional Matrices?

Maybe you don't know!

But what you learn while doing math is to think in a structured and abstract way. You learn to generalize and in the end, isn't that what we do as developers?

We abstract and solve problems that where when I input X I will get Z out.
And this is even true for machine learning but we just don't know what was their way from X to Z.

I see this also with junior developers that are self-thought and junior developers that are coming from the university.