[3] Although it was initially developed from course material offered to undergraduates at the Tokyo University of Science,[2] the book is aimed at a broad audience, and assumes only a high-school level knowledge of geometry.
[1][2] Reviewer Matthieu Jacquemet writes that the ordering of topics is unintuitive and the dialogue-based format "artificial", but reviewer Tricia Muldoon Brown instead suggests that this format allows the work to flow very smoothly, "more like a novel or a play than a textbook ... with the ease of reading purely for pleasure".
[3] Jacquemet assesses the book as "well illustrated and entertaining",[1] and Brown writes that it "is a delightful read".
[3] Reviewer Michael Fox disagrees, finding the dialogue irritating and the book overall "rather disappointing".
He also complains about idiosyncratic terminology, the use of decimal approximations instead of exact formulas for angles, the small scale of some figures, and an uneven level of difficulty of material.