Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (and that's how it's supposed to be) • Jeremy Kun

A large part of my audience over at Math Programming are industry software engineers who are discovering two things about mathematics: it's really hard and it opens the door to a world of new ideas. In that way it's a lot like learning to read. Once you're mildly fluent you can read books, use the ideas to solve problems, and maybe even write an original piece of your own. Many people who are in this position, trying to learn mathematics on their own, have roughly two approaches. The first is to learn only the things that you need for the applications you're interested in.