As a self-taught programmer, I appreciate learning about mathematical topics from the bottom up (from a « pure mathematics » point of view), after having gained

As a self-taught programmer, I appreciate learning about mathematical topics from the bottom up (from a « pure mathematics » point of view), after having gained some intuition. It is easier for me to grasp because it relates very much to my daily life of programming, with its type systems, class transformations, mappings. And the author is right in that probability theory is often employed in even looser terms than other areas of mathematics. It feels to me like building up something in java/c++/haskell vs building up the same thing in python/javascript. For a lot of people, python is simpler to handle, but I usually have to go back to my c++ to feel reasonably safe that I’m applying my functions to the right objects.