Read A Mathematician’s Lament (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256176 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256176). It does a pretty good job (among other th

Read A Mathematician’s Lament (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256176 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256176). It does a pretty good job (among other things) on explaining what the math is all about.