Ok I’ve read both Euclid’s Window and The Drunkard’s Walk–birthday gifts this year–and I’ve also read a plethora of great books, some that you’ve reviewed here including Sir Thomas Browne, Aeschylus (all of his work), Homer, etc (send me an email and I’ll send you my reading list, it’s wonderful). Euclid’s Window was Mlodinow’s debut work, and as you said, it missed the mark. However…The Drunkard’s Walk is much, much better–and six years later, if I’m not mistaken. It’s well worth reading and I hope you didn’t cast it aside. I do have a math background, took Multi-Variable Calc as a junior in high school and tutor kids in math.

You might like my own book, The Bubble Boys: How Mistaken Educational Ideals and Practices are Causing a Warped Social Fabric…might explain that horrid calculus teacher.