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Reviews
Summaries and perspectives on books, theater, film, and other creative work.
August 2020
June/July 2020
- Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games, Volumes I & II
Jean-Pierre Fouque
May 2020
April 2020
- Mathematics for Social Justice
Emille Davie Lawrence
March 2020
February 2020
- Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts
Douglas Norton
January 2020
- An Invitation to the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities
Krishnaswami Alladi
December 2019
- A Singular Mathematical Promenade
Rafe Jones
November 2019
August 2019
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Lisa R. Goldberg
June/July 2019
- Ten Great Ideas about Chance
Mark Huber
April 2019
- Book review: Only Human
Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
January 2019
- Book Review: A Comprehensive Course in Analysis
William T. Ross
September 2018
- Book Review: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
John W. Dawson, Jr.
June/July 2018
May 2012
- Princeton Lectures in Analysis by Elias M. Stein and Rami Shakarchi–A Book Review
Charles Fefferman and Robert Fefferman
November 2009
April 2005
- Flowers of Ice--Beauty, Symmetry, and Complexity: A Review of "The Snowflake"
Reviewed by John A. Adam
June/July 2004
- A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity--A Review of Everything and More
Reviewed by Michael Harris
March 2004
- Review of "Sync": The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Reviewed by G. Bard Ermentrout
November 2002
- Like a Bridge over Colored Water: Review of "The Rainbow Bridge"
Reviewed by John A. Adam
November 2000
- Stephen Smale: The Mathematician Who Broke the Dimension Barrier
Reviewed by Rob Kirby
October 2000
- Philosophy of Mathematics, An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures
Reviewed by William G. Faris - Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture and The Wild Numbers
Reviewed by Allyn Jackson
September 2000
- Proof
Reviewed by Dave Bayer - Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Reviewed by Jeremy Gray
August 2000
- Small Worlds
Reviewed by Carson C. Chow
July 2000
June 2000
- Noeuds: Genèse d'une Théorie Mathématique
Reviewed by Alain Goriely
May 2000
- Fragile Dominion
Reviewed by David C. Krakauer and Martin A. Nowak
March 2000
- The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
Reviewed by Jim Reeds
February 2000
- A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos
Reviewed by Lynn Arthur Steen
January 2000
- The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
Reviewed by Anthony Phillips - The Number Devil
Reviewed by Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Hyman Bass
November 1999
- Cryptonomicon
Reviewed by Alex Kasman