I'll leave external benefits stemming from mathematics for others to discuss. When will you use the actual math you're learning? Never. Because you'll forget al

I'll leave external benefits stemming from mathematics for others to discuss. When will you use the actual math you're learning? Never. Because you'll forget all of it within short order and when you actually need to use it, you'll be forced to re-learn it. Re-learning it will be much easier though. Kind of like remembering how to ride a bicycle. Anyway, what are the times when you'll need math? When you're trying to solve interesting problems. You will never use math if you're doing routine programming work. However, if you need to create an algorithm that detects clients within a radius of 1 mile of your location, you'll need math. If you need to rate those clients on a curved basis, you'll need math. Not skull-fracturing math, but still math. Many, many other examples. So if you're pulling data from a database and displaying it, no math. If you're actually creating that data or heavily modifying it, math. I don't think anything past calculus is necessary unless you're doing some very specialized work, but up to that point is an absolute must for any computer scientist.