Long answer: Here's an analogy. Computers have been abstracted enough that I have no idea how a compiler works, what assembly is, or what the difference between a Flash Drive and a SSD is, but I can still code as I please. Is this practice wrong? No, and I don't need to know (nor do I want to). This book tries to abstract inference (read: programming), from mathematics (read: compilers, assembly etc.).
Long answer: Here's an analogy. Computers have been abstracted enough that I have no idea how a compiler works, what assembly is, or what the difference between a Flash Drive and a SSD is, but I can still code as I please. Is this practice wrong? No, and I don't need to know (nor do I want to). This book tries to abstract inference (read: programming), from mathematics (read: compilers, assembly etc.).