I picked up this book when visiting a bookshop with a professional research mathematician. Because of nothing much other than the serendipity, I decided to get it and have a read: haven’t read much popular mathematics in a while.
The prose flows well, even if many of the examples the author gives are somewhat familiar even to the interested layman. Malinowski’s Music Animation Machine was an unexpected highlight though.
The argument is quite loose though, and I agree with many of the reddit criticisms on his article I no longer understand my PhD dissertation (and what this means for Mathematics Education). Still, it is nice to have a relaxed tour of many of the all-time favourites in popular maths in one place.