Title: Quickly loses steam.
Product review: This book starts out as if it were aimed at the lay person and even makes efforts to explain points that require no introduction to a college graduate with a degree in math or science. (Example: the author rhetorically asks how one can have a square root of a negative number.) And yet, less than one-fifth of the way into the book, he proceeds from assuming you don't know what a complex number is to requiring understanding of Riemannian geometry. The author attempts to provide more than mere nonmathematical philosophizing as some slimmer books have done, but the failure is that his presentation quickly outstrips understanding. This brings us back full circle to accepting on faith what the undoubtedly brilliant author has to say, but now in the form of a tedious, 1000+ page tome.
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