Euclid. He tried to prove theorems of basic plane geometry (hence "euclidean geometry). Since we all have an intuitive understanding of (at least the basics of) plane geometry you can look at the work and not have to also learn the domain.
People recommending the classics can come off as pretentious so I will add that I am serious: a modern book of Euclid's methods should be quite accessible.
As a followon bonus: Minsky's and Papert's 1967 book "Perceptrons" (the one that said you can't do XOR with a single-layer network, though you can with a multilayer one) that lead to 25 years of lack of interest in neural networks is entirely about using neural networks on Euclid. So you can go from one to the other!
People recommending the classics can come off as pretentious so I will add that I am serious: a modern book of Euclid's methods should be quite accessible.
As a followon bonus: Minsky's and Papert's 1967 book "Perceptrons" (the one that said you can't do XOR with a single-layer network, though you can with a multilayer one) that lead to 25 years of lack of interest in neural networks is entirely about using neural networks on Euclid. So you can go from one to the other!