The majority of developers will tell you that they’ve never needed math for their work (like I did a couple of paragraphs above), but after musing on it for a while, I had a though. What we might have here is a reverse Maslow’s hammer problem. You know the one – when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. […] Math is our hammer in reverse. We know the hammer exists but don’t quite know how to use it, so even when we meet a problem where our hammer would be the perfect tool, we never give it serious consideration. […] So, we turn our words into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Alan Skorkin. I’ve been thinking about doing a remedial adult mathematics course for a while now.
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