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FWIW, a quick summary from the book I am reading at the moment - Meta Maths by Gregory Chaitin, published by Atlantic Books.
I'll draw a veil over the difficulty the epub format has with mathematical equations. However I've encountered about ten instances of words which are hard hyphenated so that the hyphen appears in the middle of a word, in the middle of a line. The typo which amused me most though was the failure to distinguish between minus two and root two, so that -2 was displayed instead of √2 (just in case the symbol does not display properly here it represents the square root symbol) - just a little bit critical :-)
Needless to say there are also a couple of ordinary misspellings as well.
In my own not very humble opinion, I cannot see any reason whatsoever why such shoddy work should be permitted. I will be notifying the publisher, whom I am sure will embrace me with tears of gratitude for showing him/her/it these errors.
Now this is a title that, because of its maths content, demands closer scrutiny than a 'normal' text. Thankfully I've only found one instance of a maths error, but this surely implies that the production/proofing processes are sub-standard?
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