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Meh, disagree. A bunch of developers I know don't know the Pythagorean theorem but they are crazy good (developers). It completely depends on what your job requ
by throw6537 6y ago
Meh, disagree. A bunch of developers I know don't know the Pythagorean theorem but they are crazy good (developers). It completely depends on what your job requires you to do. For some developers to be great, they don't need even middle school math.
- alkonaut 6y agoI doubt Pythagoras would show up very often outside of domain problems, but basic logic and polynomials, logarithms etc shows up everywhere where you do algorithms and data structures. Math is a language and a developer will get a code review explaining something using that language (complexity etc). You can do without it but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea not to simply know those things. It’s not years and years of math, it’s a tiny bit.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoI agree with this 100%. Hard math rarely has a use outside of it's scope. How often are you really trying to simplify the cotangent multiplied by an arcsin? Sure people who deal with trigonometry do often. But that subset of people is even smaller than people who do geometry. I'd wager carpenters do more math on a daily basis than the average programmer.
- contravariant 6y agoNot knowing some part of mathematics doesn't preclude them from doing something mathematical. The fact that middle school mathematics is often disconnected from what most people would find useful is a big problem.