MISUNDERSTANDINGS CLEARED UP

Thanks to the good offices of Cathy O’Neil (also known as mathbabe)
here is the upshot of this week’s review of the book by Ernie Davis in SIAM News:

(The reviewer is on the left, the author on the right.)

It was agreed that the author of Mathematics without Apologies did not have the
intentions attributed to him in the review, and that the book’s occasionally ambiguous
style is partly responsible for the mistaken impression.