I would like to know what kind of mathematics are important to know for a programmer or computer scientist. My education was in linguistics and experimental psychology, so I did not take a lot of math courses. I have been working as a programmer for seven years and never felt the lack of math education was an obstacle, and I believe that understanding languages and logic are more relevant to the kinds of programming which are not quantitative. However, I'm not completely sure about this. What, if any, kinds of math are necessary for someone who wants a good understanding of computer science? Computers were originally developed by mathematicians, of course (which explains why they're called computers), but as far as I know it was the psychologists Simon and Newell who first thought of using them for non-quantitative information processing. A large amount of programming now days involves information processing and is logical not quantitative. So I have not yet encountered a situation where my background was insufficient. On the other hand, I would like to study math if only I had the time. Would it be worthwhile to devote some time to studying discrete mathematics? Would that be enough?
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