[FabHK]

No. It's been a while since I read it, but I found it an unapologetic, tedious, arrogant, self-serving screed lionising pure mathematics (and its practitioners, but only the very best), denigrating anything applied or even applicable, yet basically asking the hoi polloi doing that nether pedestrian work of actually working to put food on his table.

And, it's not even particularly good in instilling some appreciation of the beauty of mathematics.

Save your time.

[fsckboy]

I'm not complaining, just pointing it out because it's an interesting quibble: "hoi" means "the" in greek, so no need to say "the hoi polloi"