Every now and then there's a discussion on HN about usefulness of math in software engineering / data science / economics / or another practical field. Some peo

Every now and then there's a discussion on HN about usefulness of math in software engineering / data science / economics / or another practical field. Some people claim it's not useful or relevant, and produce some use cases where elementary math is sufficient to solve the problem at hand. In reality, math is ubiquitous in computing, at every level from hardware design to algorithms and data structures to coding and compression to UI/UX design to graphics to databases to every other field you can think of. People who are not well versed in more advanced math tend to apply simpler, more accessible techniques, and produce sub-optimal results. Which is why we have layers upon layers of broken, barely working, crappy software everywhere we look.