I got into math because of programming, oddly enough. As a kid, what I really wanted to do was make games to show off to peers. And to do that I needed some mat

I got into math because of programming, oddly enough. As a kid, what I really wanted to do was make games to show off to peers. And to do that I needed some mathematical building blocks first. Programming was a way to explore those things and then I ended up being more into that stuff than making RPG games to look cool to peers. And by accident I transformed a normal interest (games and showing things off) into something that turned out to be useful and insightful to me later.