I just finished Mathematica by David Bessis and I wish this information was presented in the way he talks about math: using words and imagery to explain what is happening, and only using the equations to prove the words are true.

I just haven’t had to use integral calculus in so many years, I don’t recall what the symbols mean and I certainly don’t care about them. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t find the problem domain interesting, if it was expressed as such. Instead, though, I get a strong dose of mathematical formalism disconnected from anything I can meaningfully reason about. Too bad.