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Review title: passive-aggressive math?
Product review: I've never come across such a work or author before. This author is plainly venting his passive-aggressive tendencies in this less than enlightening work. It took me until page 108 to finally figure what he's up to.There he puts Euclid's axioms in such a format as to be quite deliberately obscure. Then two pages later he suddenly jumps to measuring angles in radians, though he's never done it before and makes no statement that he's doing so. If you are not already ahead of him, you are lost. So it goes with the rest of the book. Meanwhile Berlinski stands to the side saying, "What did I do? What did I do? Oh, well, perhaps you should read something simpler if you cannot follow me."Berlinski is plainly a person of wit and intelligence. Alas, he's allowed another side of his persona to pop up here.
