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Most definitely. For me, I have never used any specific mathematical concept in programming aside from some side projects for using programming to explore mathematical ideas. But my so-called training in mathematics taught me both highly abstract thinking and deep, concrete, in the weeds thinking, and that's what really comes in handy in programming.



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