Yep, totally agree. You're going to study those books. If you don't like them, you won't study them. I'm belgian and engineer in computer sciences. We have LOTS of math and not that much compuer sciences. I was good at computer before entering university so what I leraned most is the theory. It helped me a lot in bringing together all the little pieces of information I knew. Math are useless in e-commerce. That's for sure. But 1) math gives you a way of thinking which is usefull in many situations, 2) math is important in many areas of coding (3D engines, physics, image analysis, etc...)