Yeah, there is no need for advanced mathematics - if you are programming commercial - off the shelf software.
However when dealing with hardcore stuff such as:
- Calculating trajectories to control
a robot
- Creating AI-like applications to
support uncertainty and automatic
reasoning
- Playing with 3-D motion and graphics
Some advanced mathematics knowledge might come in handy. And it's not like they are "out-of-this world" problems.
I had to create a software to try to "predict" the necessary amount of paper for an office (and it was hell just to find out the best way to approximate values).
You have to be careful, though, because it is easy to get lost when using advanced things - there is a friend of mine who resorted to using Turing to store the state of a dynamic menu just to display it correctly - humm... perhaps he wnet too far in his imagination.
