Totally agree with the author. In high-school, I was interested in physics more than math and whenever I took interest in math it was because it would help me u

Totally agree with the author. In high-school, I was interested in physics more than math and whenever I took interest in math it was because it would help me understand some specific aspect of the physics better. As I got into engineering, my interest in math again were only in areas where it was directly useful to me (like signal/image processing, operations research etc.) As a CS engineer, I've used very little math I was forced to learn by rote to write exams. Only use that came of it I think is training my brain muscles to do pattern recognition and fast memory recall.