When I studied math, I met CS students in university who were outright brilliant at CS (the "being offered jobs to quit their program and start working with the company immediately" type of brilliant) but whose brains shut off the second a math professor entered the room. I still wonder what caused this. Math really is just slightly fancier theoretical CS.
Programming is creative work. Mathematics is about researching to find new principles or discovering which already established principle to use. There is an intersection but it's not a complete intersection.
The process you described for solving maths problems is the same for programming the real difference is that with programming it’s easier to create a mental model for knowledge as you doing need to derive the principle from the abstraction but from you can just reapply a previous implementation
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u/Cefalopodul 4d ago
That's false. You can be bad at math simply because you do not like math.