Mathematica

I picked up David Bessis' Mathematica on a whim. It focused on a discussion of what math truly was to one accomplished in it, and how the public&rsquo;s understanding of what mathematicians do is wildly, grossly inaccurate. The book&rsquo;s premise: language is a poor medium for transmission of intuition itself, whereas math and logical proofs are overkill but required to express it. Mathematics,…