No easy way to mastery
THINKING BETTER: THE ART OF THE SHORTCUT, by Marcus du Sautoy (Fourth Estate, $37.99)
he mathematician Marcus du Sautoy is Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. He’s the second person to hold the chair, which was endowed in 1995 by a Microsoft multibillionaire. The first was Richard Dawkins, the renowned zoologist and evangelical atheist whose approach to the public understanding
