Not only will you be even more capable of picking up solving things numerically, but you'll also have the prerequisites for studying physics or probability or machine learning or Knuth's Concrete Mathematics. It opens doors to new intellectual vistas.
Solving things analytically (when possible) also can reveal more about the nature of the problem than doing so numerically, and can give the same satisfaction as finding an elegant solution in code.
You can definitely go an entire programming career without ever using it, but if you ever do run into a problem it solves, having this tool available to you is only a benefit.