The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty
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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 […]
Numerical Notation: A Comparative History
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Stephen Chrisomalis CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 496 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £65.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87818-0 Comprehensive, encyclopaedic and scholarly are the first […]
Famous Puzzles of Great Mathematicians
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Miodrag S. Petkovic AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 2009, 325 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £27.95 ISBN 978-0-8218-4814-2 This book essentially looks at puzzles […]
Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park
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Asa Briggs FRONTLINE BOOKS 2011, 256 PAGES PRICE £19.99 (HARDBACK) ISBN 978-1-84832-615-6 Asa Briggs, the eminent historian, has written this […]
Mathematics in Victorian Britain
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Edited by Raymond Flood, Adrian Rice and Robin Wilson OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2011, 480 PAGES PRICE £29.99 (HARDBACK) ISBN 978-0-19-960139-4 […]
What’s Luck Got to Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler’s Illusion
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Joseph Mazur PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 296 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £20.95 ISBN 978-0-691-13890-9 Joseph Mazur’s book takes us on a […]
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present
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George G. Szpiro PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2010, 226 PAGES PRICE (HARDBACK) £18.95 ISBN 978-0-69-113994-4 The books starts with Plato, labelled […]
Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways and Byways in the History of Mathematics
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 2009, 392 PAGES PRICE (PAPERBACK) £18.00 ISBN 978-0-80-189248-6 In this volume Ivor Grattan-Guinness collects […]