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created_at: '2012-06-02T17:10:57.000Z'
title: Do software engineers need mathematics? (2000)
url: http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_10_00.html
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Mathematician Keith Devlin is the Executive Director of the
Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute
([H-STAR](http://hstar.stanford.edu/)) at Stanford University and [The
Math Guy](http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/MathGuy.html) on NPR's
[Weekend Edition](http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat).
[Contact](mailto:keithdevlin@profkeithdevlin.com).
[Devlin's Angle](http://maa.org/devlin/devangle.html) is a monthly
column sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America.
This column does not reflect an official position of the Mathematical
Association of America.