The math is the curious one. I don't really see a good argument for it. The author does mention discrete, which is really important, but the other maths are als

The math is the curious one. I don't really see a good argument for it. The author does mention discrete, which is really important, but the other maths are also. Okay, maybe not for every developer/software engineer, but it is important because of the breadth of the field. Graphics programming, like in a physics simulation or game development, requires heavy use of matrix operations. In my program, we really were not introduced to matrix operations until Linear Algebra. Then there is Calculus, while on the surface may seem useless, but it is still the gateway to understanding higher level maths. Which in some industries, may be pretty important. I did a career fair awhile back and the Idaho National Research Laboratory folks were there. They hire software engineers that write code to simulate nuclear reactors (that was at least the gist I got). Calculus is also pretty fundamental to Machine Learning.