As a person slightly allergic to mathematics growing up, this book was surprisingly easy and painless to digest. Seriously, as a kid, math lessons made my skin so itchy I used to spend half the class in the bathroom till I stopped showing up altogether as much as I could get away with.  This book reinforced to me that I was just a victim of an overly stringent traditionalist type of Math. In fact, as a philosophy minor in college, there are plenty of parts of this book were I got outright intrigued and excited — scratching my head in a good way. The one down side is that I am 80 percent through reading this book and I am starting to feel like Mr. Ellenberg’s book is not quite the elixir of how not to be wrong. It reveals fascinating workings of what seem to me like legal scams — a la Baltimore stockbroker, but other than that, I don’t quite see how I would apply this in my day to day life of providing solutions to problems with traditional mathematical accuracy. But I guess therein lies the answer, all answers should be given as vague approximations and you’d never be wrong.<br><br>Update: 100 percent through the book and I changed my 4 stars to 5 stars because I continue to mostly agree with the author, and his conclusions on how not to be wrong — saved for the end, were exactly as I figured. I should also add that while I didn’t appreciate what seems like the authors disdain for the justice system/lawyers (not all justices or lawyers value process over truth) I can’t really hold it against him.