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Then please ask yourself: In our area, almost everyone universally respected outstanding programmers also a great mathematician. I mean like Knuth, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Noam Chomsky, Peter Norvig (Google Research Institute Director) this category. But these guys are not real developers who are computer scientists, this can really count it? Once again, I think, in the pure line of code we write the number can reach these people before the tenth written, maybe we should not go to discuss these problems. Of course, improper scientist, you can be successful and reputation, we have heard Gavin Kim (Gavin King, Hibernate founder) or David 海涅梅艾尔 Hansen (DHH, Ruby on Rails founder) ʱ?? This is quite true (which is not a lot of people have heard of Gavin and David, although this has yet to be confirmed), but 'heard' and universal respect is different, the difference is like creating a framework, and All major boost to the difference between the two in your field of human knowledge made. 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You guessed it, some math skills. (Translation: Lay Programmer means 'those programming, did not think of myself as a programmer's shoes,' explained details, see Martin Fowler thought I Write a short name for the right, if any friends know, please comment. described.) So, how can I do? Ah, I have decided to establish or restore a little bit of my math skills, although there are a lot of books to look at, a lot of code to write, but I will try to take the time on mathematics, it is like exercise, when rarely exercise overall better than nothing (again cited the words of Steve Yegge). Speaking of math, of course, still in possession of my sleeve trump card, enabling it to me, but very lucky to have this blog, we will benefit. (I know you're curious, one will tell you :)). How Nike KD 7 do you plan five years? (Limit wakeboarding) So, all things are beneficial mathematics it? It's hard to say in advance, I satisfied with my current situation, maybe you did, but both have a relationship and potential. If you are a developer collaboration of the world, you really do not need math. If you enjoy your entire career is this: do enterprise CRUD application in working hours, or in their leisure time paragliding or extreme wakeboarding (or various other fashionable geeks Movement), also allocate more time in Spring , Hibernate, Visual Studio or other things on. (In fact) those special position does not really limit your potential, you can become a valuable and even further pursuit. But if you want to fight a variety of career, you want to have the ability to try almost everything involved in codes, the information to be retrieved from the Linux kernel. In short, if you want to be a developers, programmers and computer scientists of the perfect combination, you must make sure your math skills are up to standards (hey, you can still play paragliding or extreme wakeboarding). Long story short, if you have some talent in mathematics, that in the field of software development is not a closed door to you, if not, then everything is CRUD type of work!Mathematics is an essential skill of excellence Developers