“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty —a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.” - Bertrand Russell
The biggest complaint heard amongst a lot of computer science majors is how little most of our math education effects our programming education. While by the end of the major, most people tend to see the light, there are still a few who claim that, “Blah blah class isn’t worth it.” You know what, though, they’re missing the point.
