It's worth pointing out that Mathematics is a "purist" scientific pursuit - it focuses on the theory for people for whom the theory is the point. The practical

It's worth pointing out that Mathematics is a "purist" scientific pursuit - it focuses on the theory for people for whom the theory is the point. The practical applications are for the engineers. Arguably even computer science suffers from the same problem. Keeping your domain as an example, it will go one level higher - and teach you why this math is useful for i don't know rotating a 3d object in space - but not actually teach you any of the libraries (OpenGL, Direct3D, Unity, Unreal) to actually get it done. In either case you come out with a degree with a lot of theoretical understanding, but you are useless to practical applications without further training. This is by design, but it's debatable if it's a good design. Humanities does a better job of welcoming laypersons and giving them SOME basic awareness of history/politics/philosophy/psychology to survive in the world. Math and Computer Science do no such thing, and so we have people who have no idea how to do their taxes, or automate a basic repeatable process on their computer. Maybe we should fix this.