Unexpected problem here: It’s not long enough. It’s 142 pages and covers 2-3 thousand years of mathematics, the last 300 years of which have been exponentially more complex, and it’s just. Not long enough. I don’t walk away feeling like I understand the math, I don’t walk away feeling like I understand the people, there’s a (predictably!) large cast of characters but I don’t know any of them. I don’t understand why this was so short–was the publisher not willing to take a chance on a 300 page book?