Steve Yeggie’s blog article on the math skills required for programmers leads into analysis of the math subjects presented in grade school through college for the average student and which may be considered superfluous or redundant.

It also includes some tips and tricks to buff up your skills, here’s a snippet:

I think the best way to start learning math is to spend 15 to 30 minutes a day surfing in Wikipedia. It’s filled with articles about thousands of little branches of mathematics. You start with pretty much any article that seems interesting (e.g. String theory, say, or the Fourier transform, or Tensors, anything that strikes your fancy.) Start reading. If there’s something you don’t understand, click the link and read about it. Do this recursively until you get bored or tired.

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