Autodidactic strategery is a bit of an independent question from that of how important math is. As a prerequisite for CS or programming, you only need middle s

Autodidactic strategery is a bit of an independent question from that of how important math is. As a prerequisite for CS or programming, you only need middle school algebra. It's obviously necessary to learn new things for core CS classes like data structures & algorithms. And then beyond that, there are specific applications of mathematics to specific domains. But as a question of fact, particular math knowledge is not useful in a lot of software development.