Woodland -- My college work was a dual major in Business/Sociology, with a BS -- I had to take a lot of math and statistics. I ended up finishing the Business degree as more marketable. Although I started out in Advertising, I spent most of my working career in Engineering and related disciplines, most of the time with large civil projects. Peoples eyes glaze over when I start talking about my concepts of frequency distributions and whatever.
On the other hand Karla Alexander, in her Stack the Deck books does something very similar to what I do in handling my pieces and explains it much better!
https://www.amazon.com/Karla-Alexand...rwt_scns_share
She works in a more modern style and allows my declining vision not-so-picky ways to quilt
I first started quilting when I was quite young, so back in the 1970s and I can honestly say I had never seen a scrap quilt that I liked until Judy Martin's book Scrap Quilts came out in 1985. While the instructions are dated (templates even) the discussion and pictures of what a scrap quilt could be changed my view/style in quilting.
https://www.amazon.com/Scrap-Quilts-.../dp/096029709X