PositiveThe Wall Street JournalMr. Wilkinson gives his journey the quintessential New-Yorker-super-duper-feature treatment. While he struggles with learning math, his capacious curiosity leads him to roam far and wide through the discipline’s history and philosophy. For starters, the question, \'What is mathematics?\' generates an illuminating riff...In this context, Mr. Wilkinson is entirely in his element, telling tales with his easily acquired, elegant erudition—especially when he ventures out to meet mathematicians.
