A mathematician reads the newspaper and comments on it from a mathematics-oriented point of view. That’s what this book is, and it’s a fun and interesting read thanks to Paulos’s clear writing and understated humour. I have a few of his books and they are all good. I do like this one because he says the sorts of things that I always think when I read the newspaper. Paulos is good at gleaning insight from fairly trivial-seeming things – like newspapers.