We believe that all curious people can enjoy and understand great
mathematical ideas without having to brush up on garden-variety school math
or relive their painful algebra daze.
---Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird, Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math
Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas, W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.
Quoted from the Front matter: Opening thoughts.