The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking. Laurence Geai for Quanta Magazine Introduction David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike other creative processes, like making music, which can be heard, or painting pictures, which can be seen, math is for the most part an internal process, hidden from view. “It sounded a bit magical. ...