I was going to recommend that. Each chapter is a chatty essay, setting up a social context that shows the importance of mathematics in war, health care, or biology,...

However, each chapter also involves some real mathematics. For example the reader is invited to solve a simple differential equation to follow the story.

I use it every day just because it is so convenient.

More seriously, think about development. You can have the program running on one X server and the development environment on another, letting you debug without interactions via the servers.