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Your opinion has zero basis in facts and betrays some serious ignorance of Scientific Method. No educated person can deny the importance of Mathematics to our technologically advanced society today. Computer Science is a subfield of Mathematics and Computer Programming is the application of principles and concepts studied therein.

As mentioned earlier, the point of studying Mathematics for Computer Science is to make your "average software engineer" better and more productive than he/she was in the past.

Eugene Wigner's classic essay The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is very relevant here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...



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