Software is a very broad field and you are painting with a very broad brush. It is true that for many branches of software you do not need much in the way of a

Software is a very broad field and you are painting with a very broad brush. It is true that for many branches of software you do not need much in the way of advanced mathematics. But EVERY graphics programmer I have ever met has told me he wishes he had paid more attention in higher level math courses. The same holds true for folks doing signal and image processing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and on and on...