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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a child who wants to study computer science please tell them to major in pure mathematics and minor in computer science instead. I am a machine learning engineer and makes $300k. Most machine learning positions are research positions where you need the ability to turn theoretical algorithms into a product. The courses I took in Abstract algebra, topology, differential geometry, and Real Analysis are extremely useful.

Unfortunately, math majors are a rare bread. And the reason is that math departments do a very poor jobs highlighting the diverse careers of their pure math graduates. I think pure mathematics is the best major. [/quote]

The courses you list are required in my CS degree. It's very math heavy.[/quote]
Name the college. I’m calling BS. DP but it’s rare to see a basic CS major require more than just linear Algebra, calc, and maybe diffeq[/quote]

+1. CS students typically take theory of computation, discrete math and algorithms . The proofs in those courses are nowhere near the rigor of the proofs in a course like Real analysis. I don't know any CS undergrad program that requires their students to know lebegue integration for example. Maybe Stanford or MIT or Berkeley. [/quote]
Nope, MIT just requires some introductory probability (not even probability theory) and Linear Algebra.[/quote]

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