" There are hidden meanings in equations, just as there are in poetry. If you are a novice looking at an equation in physics, and you’re not taught how to see the life underlying the symbols, the lines will look dead to you. It is when you begin to learn and supply the hidden text that the meaning slips, slides, then finally leaps to life. "

― Barbara Oakley , A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)