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Howdy

After working for decades in software engineering I still remember many professional software engineers stopping and gawking when they walked by our offices and asked if we were really talking about Singular Value Decompositions when we were saying SVDs. I don't think many software engineers use all that much math on a daily basis in the industry. They use some specific forms of math informally a lot (e.g. big and little O estimations), but most of them would have no idea what you are talking about when you mention Dedekind cuts or Stone spaces... Heck even numerical analysis isn't taught that thoroughly to undergraduates much anymore either, a lot of people stair at me blankly when I talk about Runge–Kutta methods or Jacobi rotations.

-Ted


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