Rating: 
Summary: Not an 'easy' read
Review: This is a demanding book. One cannot read it listening to Bach. [a clash of complexities]. The construction of he book is `old style' [which is every seeming possible variation is mentioned] which has fallen into disfavor as confusing,That written it is very complete and I really enjoyed many parts of this book.
Rating:
Summary: theoretically very good
Review: This is an interesting and wide ranging book. In the main it presents, develops and explains it's ideas very well, although I did not always find it, as one reviewer, a mister Albert Einstein described it, "easily understandable". I have two minor complaints about this book: 1) Print quality
For no apparent reason the text size varies occasionally, and in places the printing is slightly blurred, so that sometimes the subscripts and superscripts on formulae are illegible. Perhaps they skimped on typesetting costs by photoreproducing formulae from the original printing? 2) Incompleteness
If you bought this book because the front cover says "...representation of the fundamental concepts and methods of the whole field of mathematics" (another A.E. quote) you may be disappointed to find this is not the case. Trigonometry, for example, is not discussed, except where it crops up in other topics such as applying calculus to trig functions.
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