Title: The Color Purple (as in prose)
Product review: The story of the algorithm is a good one, and Berlinski can write intelligibly about mathematics, which is rare. Unfortunately, the work-like the Tour of the Calculus before it-is marred by the author's stylistic excesses. Berlinski is a notorious over writer. He never met an adjective he didn't like. His historic fantasies simply don't advance the story. To wit: "The duke of Brunswick, his issue destined for the British throne but his attention fatally diverted by his screaming bladder, waggles his pink palms, rises rapidly from his sea, and without a word scuttles down the long library corridor of the massive wooden double doors, where, after pulling at the red tasseled bell rope, he waits in an agony of impatience for a footman to appear."There are similar passages on most every page. Don't editors edit any more? Harold Ross would have cut this book to shreds. ...
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