This Month in MAA Reviews

June 2007

• Additive Combinatorics, by Terence Tao and Van H. Vu
• An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, by Alan Agresti
• An Invitation to Morse Theory, by Liviu Nicolaescu
• Applied Nonlinear Analysis, by Jean-Pierre Aubin and Ivar Ekeland
• Basic Linear Partial Differential Equations, by François Trèves
• Calculus, by Jon Rogawski
• Calculus on Manifolds: A Modern Approach to Classical Theorems of Advanced Calculus, by Michael D. Spivak
• Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion, by Paul J. Nahin
• Collected Papers of John Milnor, Volume III: Differential Topology, by John Milnor
• Crimes and Mathdemeanors, by Leith Hathout
• Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics, by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
• Differential Topology: First Steps, by Andrew H. Wallace
• Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
• Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith, by Daniel J. Cohen
• Figures of Thought: A Literary Appreciation of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, by Thomas K. Simpson
• Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider's Guide to the New Science of Space Travel, by Edward Belbruno
• Galois Theory, by Steven H. Weintraub
• Handbook of Linear Algebra, ed. by Leslie Hogben
• Heavy-Tail Phenomena: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling, by Sidney I. Resnick
• Introduction to Calculus and Classical Analysis, by Omar Hijab
• Mathematical Excursions, by Richard Aufmann et al.
• Mathematics Frontiers: 1950 to the Present, by Michael J. Bradley
• Modern Mathematics: 1900 to 1950, by Michael J. Bradley
• Partial Differential Equations: Sources and Solutions, by Arthur D. Snider
• Principles of Statistical Inference, by D. R. Cox
• Statistics for Real-Life Sample Surveys: Non-Simple-Random Samples and Weighted Data, by Sergey Dorofeev and Peter Grant
• Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, by Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan
• The Age of Genius: 1300 to 1800, by Michael J. Bradley
• The Birth of Mathematics: Ancient Times to 1300, by Michael J. Bradley
• The Education of T. C. Mits: What Modern Mathematics Means to You, by Lillian R. Lieber and Hugh Gray Lieber
• The Foundations of Mathematics: 1800 to 1900, by Michael J. Bradley
• The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue, by Matthew L. Jones
• The Shaping of Arithmetic After C. F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, ed. by Catherine Goldstein, Norbert Schappacher, and Joachim Schwermer
• Tool and Object: A History and Philosophy of Category Theory, by Ralf Krömer
• Vector Calculus, by Miroslav Lovrić
• Writing Math Research Papers: A Guide for Students and Instructors, by Robert Gerver

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