This book found me at an airport bookstore and it didn't disappoint. The author uses humor, history and current events to describe how we use math everyday to solve problems and presents theories and axioms of the field in layman's terms to ensure we understand the point: Mathematics is the extension of common sense by other means.

If you like math this is the book for you. If you want to learn about statistics and philosophy this read will blow your mind. If for some reason you dislike the author or lack some mathematical training or passion it can be dry and hard to get through. For me, the prose was beautifully designed to keep you enthralled and engaged. For you it can be whatever it needs or has to be.

I cannot be certain that you will like the contents or the review but I encourage you to read it because the footnotes and examples are worth knowing. The book is so much more than an ode to math, it gives credit to all of use who use it every day in everything we do even when we may not realize it.