The author obviously really dislikes his subject, Buckminster Fuller, but even accounting for some personal bias, the guy does sound like a bit of an idiot:

> he found the number pi distasteful. “I’d learned at school that in order to make a sphere, which is what a bubble is, you employ pi, and I’d also learned that pi is an irrational number. To how many places, I wondered, did frustrated nature factor pi? And I reached the decision right at that moment that nature didn’t use pi,” reads his objection in a New Yorker profile.