In the software development space, primarily in the financial sector, I’ve always been surprised by the number of developers who didn’t understand basic concept

In the software development space, primarily in the financial sector, I’ve always been surprised by the number of developers who didn’t understand basic concepts from math, like Boolean algebra (DeMorgan can certainly be useful), logarithms, exponential functions (e.g. compounded or continuous growth), etc. I would have preferred that programmers had more understanding rather than less. Can’t one do all this in Excel? Sure, but actually knowing what one is doing seems to be beneficial. The article reminds me of Asimov’s Foundation: use the machine but hope they never break.