Back in 2006, Steve Yegge wrote a really great blog (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers.html) about what Maths programmers should / can learn and how / why. If you have a moment - go read it. Its inspiring to any programmer, who like me, suffer from a somewhat knee-jerk reaction to a discipline that, if embraced, can be wholly enlightening and actually - as Steve suggest - (whispers *fun*)