Any point in a math minor?

Mokonon
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:45:38 +0000

I see. Thanks for the clarification, Ari7.

I think the answer to your question, “Is a math minor worthwhile” really depends on what you want to do when you graduate. Don’t worry so much about how it looks on your resume. Instead, you should look beyond the job interview and think about how useful the extra math background will be to you. If you’re planning on going to grad school, taking more math will probably benefit you. On the other hand, if you go and work on software for a health insurance company, or you get a job as a web developer (things that some of my former classmates are doing), those extra math minors probably won’t benefit you – at least, not immediately.

At the very least, you should listen to your adviser and take the matrix algebra class because it’s useful in many areas of computer science and engineering in general.