Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry
Glen Van Brummelen PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2013, 216 PAGES PRICE £24.95 (HARDBACK) ISBN 978-0-691-14892-2 This book aims to introduce its […]
A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course
William Johnston and Alex McAllister OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS USA 2009, 768 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £50 ISBN 978-0-195-31076-4 This text […]
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010
Edited by Mircea Pitici (with a foreword by William P. Thurston) PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 360 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £13.95, […]
Riot at the Calc Exam and Other Mathematically Bent Stories
Colin Adams AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 2009, 271 PAGES PRICE £26.95, ISBN 978-0-8218-4817-3 The intention of the book is given by […]
NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions
Edited by Frank W. J. Olver, Daniel W. Lozier, Ronald F. Boisvert and Charles W. Clark CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, […]
Modelling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks
Adnan Darwiche CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2009, 562 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £58.00 ISBN 978-0-521-88438-9 One of the key themes underlying mathematics, […]
Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction
Paul J. Nahin PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011, 400 PAGES PRICE £20.95 (HARDBACK) ISBN 978-0-691-14425-2 In 1841 Augustus De Morgan challenged […]
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information
Vlatko Vedral OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 240 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £16.99, ISBN 978-0-19-923769-2 If a poll was held to identify […]
Calendrical Calculations (Third Edition)
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2008, 512 PAGES PRICE £23.99, ISBN 978-0-521-70238-6 Reingold and Dershowitz present […]
The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty
Williams Byers PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011, 224 PAGES PRICE £16.95, ISBN 978-0-691-14684-3 A fair number of authors have the ability […]
