I've been told by a few mathematicians that the article itself is rather nastily written -- the interviewed parties shows people at their worst and often out of

I've been told by a few mathematicians that the article itself is rather nastily written -- the interviewed parties shows people at their worst and often out of context. In addition to portraying certain people (notably Yau) in a rather negative light, the entire mathematics community is depicted as petty and argumentative. As such, the article is not taken seriously in much of the math community. People have their flaws, of course, but things have been taken to rather an extreme in this article.