The New Era in American Mathematics 1920-1950
Karen Hunger Parshall PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2022, 640 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £42.00 ISBN 978-0-691-23524-0 Professor Parshall’s academic history is perhaps […]
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut
Marcus du Sautoy 4TH ESTATE 2021, 352 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £20.00 ISBN 978-0-00-839391-5 ‘To find good shortcuts requires an ability […]
The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry
Glen Van Brummelen PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2021, 392 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £25.00 ISBN 978-0-691-17941-4 This is the sequel to an […]
Trigonometry: A Very Short Introduction
Glen Van Brummelen OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2020, 192 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £8.99 ISBN 978-0-19-881431-3 The OUP’s Very Short Introduction series […]
Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles
Jason Rosenhouse PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2020, 352 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £25.00 ISBN 978-0-691-17407-5 This book explores the history and future […]
The Flying Mathematicians of World War I
Tony Royle McGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS 2020, 288 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £22.50 ISBN 978-0-228-00373-1 I was intrigued by the title of […]
Number Theory – A Very Short Introduction
Robin Wilson OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2020, 176 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £8.99 ISBN 978-0-19-879809-5 Robin Wilson has what is by any […]
Republic of Numbers
David Lindsay Roberts JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 2019, 252 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £22.00 ISBN 978-1-4214-3308-0 Roberts gives an account of […]
Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas
David M. Bressoud PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2019, 242 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £25.00 ISBN 978-0-691-18131-8 Professor Bressoud has a well-respected […]
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – and Why They Stop
Adam Kucharski PROFILE BOOKS 2020, 352 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £16.99 ISBN 978-1-78816-019-3 I agreed to review this book, serendipitously published […]