I would say 'studying maths teachs you how to abstract problems' or 'computer science usually cares for the results, not the method' but that has been said a lo

I would say 'studying maths teachs you how to abstract problems' or 'computer science usually cares for the results, not the method' but that has been said a lot in other comments (and it's not exactly right). Instead I will point an interesting fact I've noticed myself among my computer science classmates (from my second degree, I first did mathematics). When you stumble around 'maths' (which in classes it's pretty common, to explain things using mathematical formulas, but in the real world it's also common to have some explanations even in stack overflow using math expressions), in that situation other computer science students usually see them as something 'strange', something to be afraid of or reject by searching alternatives; whether myself and other math/physics-students just don't care, we are used to it (and most times it's just a function) My opinion is: you don't need maths (99.99% of the time), but you also don't need to be afraid of them and knowledge is very good for that.