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Re:How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook by sotojuan on Friday October 30, 2015 @10:30AM (#10478001)
I see. I think you hit an interesting point with that story: You may not need math to write an application, but it helps a lot when making it efficient and knowing which abstractions to use.

Personally, I'm going to spend some time after graduation teaching myself math. I think it can be incredibly helpful, even if it's just to improve my thinking.

Re:How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook by amelius on Friday October 30, 2015 @11:02AM (#10478220)
I can highly recommend Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra course, available as video lecture series [1]

[1] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...