Reality as a Mathematical Structure

"Math­e­mat­ics is the eas­i­est of art and sci­ence to teach a mind."

The quote above has cer­tain­ly never been said with any se­ri­ous­ness...

As we know, often by first-hand ex­pe­ri­ence, or in­ad­ver­tent­ly in our every day modern life en­coun­ter­ings, math­e­mat­ics, while gov­ern­ing the laws of matter around us, is seldom un­der­stood and ap­pre­ci­at­ed for its beauty and el­e­gance.