I was attracted to the premise of the boook: that the legacy of Pythagoras - a way of viewing the world as being fundamentally describable with mathematics - imbued much of our modern culture and science. However the execution left a lot to be desired. A long rambling narrative about people who had claimed to be Pythagoreans through history which obscured the wood with the trees was the major issue. An incoherent superficial discussion of modern philosophy, quantum mechanics and postmodernism ro More...