Yes, especially having gone to math grad school and then working on applied problems in industry. Most of my peers have way less math training, many never took

Yes, especially having gone to math grad school and then working on applied problems in industry. Most of my peers have way less math training, many never took any discrete math. It would be incredibly foolish of me to presume that it someone makes me perform better or think better. In the spirit of a well-rounded college math education, sure, taking one or even two classes on this topic would be fine, for basic literacy. I’m only saying that it doesn’t come up as a needed skillset in applied math or computer scuence jobs. Virtually never. So to whatever extent people say it helps develop systems thinking, algorithmic thinking, complexity thinking, it’s just not true.