I enjoyed this post a lot because I traveled the opposite path. I started out in computer science with little interest whatsoever in math all through high school.
Then when I got to college they introduced the notion of "program correctness" where you tried to prove, mathematically, that your computer programs were correct. This convinced me that computer science was simply a knock-off approximation of mathematics and I drifted away from it.
From your derivative example above I’d say it is this inexact nature of computer science that you especially like. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
Then when I got to college they introduced the notion of "program correctness" where you tried to prove, mathematically, that your computer programs were correct. This convinced me that computer science was simply a knock-off approximation of mathematics and I drifted away from it.
From your derivative example above I’d say it is this inexact nature of computer science that you especially like. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.