That's self-fulfilling. Math lets you solve problems that you wouldn't even have though of as problems before. If you don't know the math, your brain skips over

That's self-fulfilling. Math lets you solve problems that you wouldn't even have though of as problems before. If you don't know the math, your brain skips over them as a fact of life rather than as something with a solution. Programming doesn't require math because programmers don't necessarily know math, not because the opportunity isn't there.