True. Math is drier than physics. But Terrence Tao is well known, and there are a lot of nerds on the planet. The last popular math book I read wasn't good (Hum

True. Math is drier than physics. But Terrence Tao is well known, and there are a lot of nerds on the planet. The last popular math book I read wasn't good (Humble Pi; a Comedy of Math Errors), but I did enjoy e.g. How to Lie with Statistics, and, to a lesser extent, Innumeracy. I would buy Tao's book, probably.