Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Calculus crushed to death by weight of the English Language

Berlinsky simply tries too hard to wax poetic. He needed to decide at the outset, is this a math book or a rhapsody in the key of Calculus? He waxes and digresses, seduced by his own overwrought prose which takes him places I'm sure his mother warned him about and I suspect very few readers followed him. I was game enough to tag along for 100 pages out of respect for the subject, but could hold my nose no longer. Where were the man's editors for God's sake?