any math majors?

im thinking of switching from CS to math. i still want to be a programmer, but the kinds of programming that im interested are mathy in nature (learning from data, scientific computing, graphical simulations, etc). my school teaches object oriented design pattern pseudo science instead of real cs.

Math alone won't give you the background you need. In CS, you'll just have to struggle through the fads, they are bound to happen to fields that are popular and don't require too much knowledge to get into.

Don't worry about the "contemporary" software development crap. I don't know what kind of classes you have, but your curriculum probably has Databases, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Theory of Computing, Data Structures and Algorithms, which are enough to make CS a good option. By what you cited as your interests, I think you'll be stimulated by the field called Numerical Analysis. I'm taking a Numerical Analysis course even though it's outside my curriculum, and I'm seriously considering working in that area in the future.

To those who say CS is an art, that's bullshit. It doesn't say anything at all. It's because of that kind of shit that the field is full of crap like Agile methodologies and other wannabe  pseudo science fads.