As someone who studied math as an undergrad, I completely agree. As far as I can remember, Learning the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory was no more difficu

As someone who studied math as an undergrad, I completely agree. As far as I can remember, Learning the Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory was no more difficult to me than learning the Mean Value Theorem. But I guess my point is that programming at an "Algebra" level means you have very little knowledge the language, while programming at a "Calculus" level means that you have much more knowledge.