"If you want your career to grow beyond shuffling data around to meet arbitrary business goals, you should learn the tools that enable you to write programs tha

"If you want your career to grow beyond shuffling data around to meet arbitrary business goals, you should learn the tools that enable you to write programs that captivate and delight you. Mathematics is one of those tools." His quote from the introduction of his book rings kind of true to me. I kind of hit a wall in my CS education. It's like I'm learning and building different flavors of the same thing over and over again with no deeper insight. New frameworks and new languages but the same concepts on an endless loop. At my old age I've come to realize that the deeper insight is located in mathematics... and programming was just a small aspect of what was ultimately a larger structure. If you stay in the programming field, the only thing that's going to happen is you're going to travel in circles, you need to move to math or move part of your learning into something more mathematics based in order to gain that "deeper insight".