I haven&#x27;t had to rely a lot on math skills for a large portion of my career. For most &quot;full-stack&quot; stuff I&#x27;ve been involved with, it barely gets any higher than algebra. However, I&#x27;ve found math creep up though here and there, whether it be in understanding how projections worked in the mapping software I wrote, the computer graphics code I assisted with, and also in my routing algorithms for traffic flow.<p>Nowadays my lack of knowledge is most apparent in studying machine learning. There have been some very high level concepts employed, at least for me: Jacobian matrices, partial derivatives, tensors, etc. I&#x27;ve been able to fake that for a while, the algorithms get abstracted in the libraries. Yet the abstraction obscures a real understanding for me in how they work.