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> there's actually not that much heavy maths.

Uh... sure if you know measure theory.

The later chapter especially in Dirichlet chapters assume you know measure theory.

I don't think this is true having read some of the later chapters and not knowing measure theory. And if you don't trust me, Gelman doesn't know measure theory either (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2008/01/14/what_to_le...) and he wrote the book...

There's little that can be said about Dirichlet processes without measure theory; fundamentally speaking they are random measures. That said, the vast majority of the book presupposes no measure theory.

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