This book is on my reading list. I listened to an interview of the author who said that their primary motivation of the book was less about teaching math, but t

This book is on my reading list. I listened to an interview of the author who said that their primary motivation of the book was less about teaching math, but teaching the value of looking at the world abstractly to determine patterns and constructs to explain our shared experience. Is math real or not? It doesn't matter she posits, it works and continues to work and we can learn from its existence that almost everything can be explained and is "predictable" given enough inputs.