I don't have a formal CS education, but most of the algorithms, i find that i can find analogies from whatever math i learnt back in school and college. I didn'

I don't have a formal CS education, but most of the algorithms, i find that i can find analogies from whatever math i learnt back in school and college. I didn't major in math either. I just had a Mech. Engineering degree. One difference is that when i was in school, i ended up learning math in two different languages. My school used English, and in my free time i was bored enough to pick up and read my dad's classroom textbooks(in my mother tongue Tamil). Currently i work as a s/w Engineer and would agree that a full-time formal math training is not necessary in the current marketplace. OTOH, I also have moments, when i do wish i had seen a consequence a lot earlier, before expending so much effort. And think those would be reduced by a good math training.