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Index to All Book Reviews
by Author
- AAAS "Project 2061", Blueprints for Reform, Reviewed by Joel S. Foisy
- Aaboe, Asger, Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy. Reviewed by Tom Brennan
- Abbott, Stephen D., Understanding Analysis. Reviewed by Steve Kennedy
- Acheson, David, 1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics. Reviewed by Teri J. Murphy and Henry J. Neeman
- Acheson, David, From Calculus to Chaos. Briefly noted.
- Adam, John A., Mathematics in Nature. Reviewed by Steven Morics
- Adams, Colin, Why Knot? An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots. Reviewed by Philip D. Straffin
- Adams, Colin, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass, How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide, Reviewed by Steve Benson
- Adams, Colin, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass, How to Ace the Rest of Calculus: The Streetwise Guide. Reviewed by Kevin Anderson
- Aigner, Martin, and Günter M. Ziegler, Proofs from THE BOOK, reviewed by Mary Shepherd
- Albert, Jim, Teaching Statistics Using Baseball. Reviewed by Steven Morics
- Albert, Jim, and Jay Bennet, Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game. Reviewed by J. Kevin Colligan
- Albert, Jim and Jay Bennett and James J. Cochran, Anthology of Statistics in Sports. Briefly noted
- Albree, Joe, David C. Arney, and V. Frederick Rickey, A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy. Briefly noted.
- Alexanderson, Gerald L., The Random Walks of George Pólya. Reviewed by Manav Das
- Allman, Elizabeth S., and John A. Rhodes, Mathematical Models in Biology: An Introduction. Reviewed by Judy Holdener
- Altmann, Simon and Eduardo L. Ortiz, eds., Mathematics and Social Utopias in France: Olinde Rodrigues and His Times. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
- Andersen, Janet and Todd Swanson, Understanding Our Quantitative World. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
- Anderson, Marlow, and Todd Feil, A First Course in Abstract Algebra: Rings, Groups, and Fields. Briefly noted
- Anderson, Marlow and Victor Katz, and Robin Wilson, eds., Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History . Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Andreescu, Titu and Oleg Mushkarov and Luchezar Stoyanov, Geometric Problems on Maxima and Minima. Reviewed by Henry Ricardo
- Andreescu, Titu, and Bogdan Enescu, Mathematical Olympiad Treasures. Briefly noted
- Andreescu, Titu, and Razvan Gelca, Mathematical Olympiad Challenges. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
- Andreescu, Titu, and Zuming Feng, A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting Strategies. Briefly noted
- Andreescu, Titu, and Zuming Feng, Mathematical Olympiads 1998-1999. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
- Andreescu, Titu, and Zuming Feng, Mathematical Olympiads: Problems and Solutions From Around the World, 1999-2000. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
- Andreescu, Titu and Zuming Feng and George Lee Jr., Mathematical Olympiads: Problems and Solutions from Around the World, 2000-2001. Briefly noted
- Andreescu, Titu, and Zuming Feng, USA and International Mathematical Olympiads 2000. Briefly noted.
- Andreescu, Titu, and Zuming Feng, USA and International Mathematical Olympiads 2001. Briefly noted.
- Andriesse, C. D., Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle. Reviewed by Steven Frankel
- Apostol, Tom M., Early History of Mathematics. Reviewed by David Graves
- Apostol, Tom M., Ten Mathematical Acrostics For People Who Are Amused by Words. Briefly noted.
- Arndt, Jörg, and Christoph Haenel, Pi Unleashed. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
- Arney, David C., editor, Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs), Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Arnez, A., K. Polthier, M. Steffens, and C. Teitzel, Touching Soap Films: An Introduction to Minimal Surfaces (Springer VideoMATH). Reviewed by Mark McKibben
- Arnold, V., M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, eds., Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Artmann, Benno, Euclid: the Creation of Mathematics, Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
- Artin, Emil, Algebraic Numbers and Algebraic Functions. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Artzt, Alice F., and Eleanor Armour-Thomas, Becoming a Reflective Mathematics Teacher: A Guide for Observations and Self-Assessment. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
- Ascher, Marcia, Mathematics Elsewhere. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
- Ash, Avner, and Robert Gross, Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers. Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Ash, Robert, A Primer of Abstract Mathematics, Reviewed by Steven Morics
- Ashbacher, Charles, Pluckings from the Tree of Smarandache Sequences and Functions. Briefly Noted.
- Assayag, Gérard, Hans Georg Feichtinger, and José Francisco Rodrigues, editors, Mathematics and Music: A Diderot Mathematical Forum. Reviewed by Leon Harkleroad
- Atanassova, Krassimir, Vassia Atanassova, Anthony Shannon and John Turner, New Visual Perspectives on Fibonacci Numbers. Briefly noted
- Ayoub, Raymond G., ed., Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
- Babich, Amy and Laura Person, Write Your Own Proofs: In Set Theory and Discrete Mathematics. Reviewed by James Hamblin
- Bais, Sander, The Equations: Icons of Knowledge. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
- Baker, Andrew, Matrix Groups: An Introduction to Lie Group Theory. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Baker, Roger and Charles Christenson and Henry OrdeBernhard Riemann, Collected Papers. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Ball, Keith, Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and other Mathematical Explorations. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
- Banks, H. T. and Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Bioterrorism: Mathematical Modeling Applications in Homeland Security. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
- Bannan, David. A., Matthew F. Esplen, and Jeremy J. Gray, Geometry, Reviewed by J. I. Hall
- Barbeau, Edward J. Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam. Briefly noted.
- Barbeau, Ed, Power Play, Reviewed by David Graves
- Barrow, John D., Between Inner Space and Outer Space. Briefly noted.
- Bashmakova, Isabella, and Galina Smirnova, The Beginnings and Evolution of Algebra, Reviewed by G. L. Alexanderson
- Bashmakova, Isabella Grigoryevna, Diophantus and Diophantine Equations, Reviewed by David Graves
- Bateman, Paul T., and Harold G. Diamond, Analytic Number Theory: An Introductory Course. Briefly noted.
- Batterson, Steve, Stephen Smale: The Mathematician Who Broke the Dimension Barrier. Reviewed by Shirley B. Gray
- Baxter, Stephen, Manifold: Time. Briefly noted.
- Beardon, Alan F., Algebra and Geometry. Reviewed by Stephen Ahearn
- Becchi, Antonio et. al., eds., Essays on the History of Mechanics. Briefly noted
- Beck, Anatole, Michael N. Bleicher, and Donald W. Crowe, Excursions into Mathematics, Millennium Edition. Briefly noted.
- Beckman, Bengt, Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish Crypto Program During World War II. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
- Beeley, Philip and Christoph Scriba, eds., Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), Volume I (1641–1659). Briefly noted
- Bekken, Otto B., and Reidar Mosvold, eds., Study the Masters: The Abel-Fauvel Conference. Reviewed by Victor J. Katz
- Benjamin, Arthur T., and Jennifer J. Quinn, Proofs that Really Count. Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Bennett, Curtis D., and Annalisa Crannell, Starting Our Careers, Reviewed by George L. Ashline
- Bennett, Deborah, Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You. Reviewed by Robert S. Wolf
- Bennett, Deborah J., Randomness,Reviewed by Randall J. Swift
- Bennett, M. A. et al, Surveys in Number Theory: Papers from The Millennial Conference on Number Theory. Briefly noted.
- Benson, Donald C., The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Benson, Donald C., A Smoother Pebble: Mathematical Explorations. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Berg, Michael C., The Fourier-Analytic Proof of Quadratic Reciprocity. Briefly noted.
- Berger, Marcel, A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry. Reviewed by Tan Zhang
- Berggren, J. L., Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam. Briefly noted
- Berggren, Lennart, and Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein, eds., Pi: A Source Book, Third Edition. Briefly noted
- Berinde, Vasile, Exploring, Investigating and Discovering in Mathematics. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
- Berlekamp, Elwyn R., John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy, Winning Ways. Volume 1, Second Edition. Briefly noted.
- Berlekamp, Elwyn R., and John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy, Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays. Volume 2, Second Edition. Briefly noted
- Berlekamp, Elwin W., John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy, Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, volume 3. Briefly noted
- Berlinghoff, William P., and Fernando Q. Gouvêa, Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others. Reviewed by Victor J. Katz
- Berlinski, David, The Advent of the Algorithm. Reviewed by Allen B. Downey
- Berlinski, David, A Tour of the Calculus, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
- Bernoulli, Jacob, The Art of Conjecturing, together with "Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis", translated with an introduction and notes by Edith Dudley Sylla. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Berrick, A. J. and M. E. Keating, Categories and Modules: With K-theory in View. Briefly noted.
- Berzsenyi, George, and Stephen B. Maurer, The Contest Problem Book V, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
- Bhatia, Rajendra, Fourier Series. Reviewed by Brandy J. Lipton
- Biggs, N. L., E. K. Lloyd, and R. J. Wilson, Graph Theory 1736-1936. Briefly noted.
- Blair, David E., Inversion Theory and Conformal Mapping. Reviewed by Morteza Seddighin
- Blay, Michel, Reasoning with the Infinite, Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Bloch, Ethan D, Proofs and Fundamentals: A First Course in Abstract Mathematics. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Blyth, T. S., Lattices and Ordered Algebraic Structures. Briefly noted
- Blyth, T. S., and E. F. Robertson, Basic Linear Algebra. Reviewed by Maria G. Fung
- Blyth, T. S., and E. F. Robertson, Further Linear Algebra. Reviewed by Morteza Seddighin
- Bonar, Daniel D. and Michael J. Khoury, Real Infinite Series. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
- Boros, George, and Victor H. Moll, eds., Irresistible Integrals: Symbolics, Analysis and Experiments in the Evaluation of Integrals. Briefly noted
- Borwein, Jonathan and David Bailey and Roland Girgensohn, Experimentation in Mathematics: Computational Paths to Discovery. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Borwein, Jonathan and David Bailey, Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Borwein, Jonathan, Maria H. Morales, Konrad Polthier, José F. Rodrigues, eds., Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics: Compression, Simplification, and Multiresolusion. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
- Borwein, Peter, Computational Excursions in Analysis and Number Theory. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
- Bos, Henk J. M., Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction. Briefly noted.
- Bourgignon, Jean-Pierre, François Tisseyre, Claire Weingarten, The New Shepherd's Lamp. Briefly noted.
- Brabenec, Robert L., Resources for the Study of Real Analysis. Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
- Bradley, Christopher J., Challenges in Geometry: For Mathematical Olympians Past and Present. Briefly noted
- Bradshaw, Gillian, The Sand Reckoner. Reviewed by Reviel Netz
- Bressoud, David, and Stan Wagon, A Course in Computational Number Theory. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Bressoud, David M., Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture. Reviewed by Michele Intermont
- Britten, Nicholas F., Essential Mathematical Biology. Briefly noted
- Brunt, Bruce van, The Calculus of Variations. Briefly noted
- Bruter, Claude P., ed., Mathematics and Art: Mathematical Visualization in Art and Education. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
- Bruce, Colin, Conned Again, Watson: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability. Reviewed by Daniel H. Cohen
- Buchwald, Jed. Z. and I. Bernard Cohen, Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy. Briefly noted
- Bunch, Bryan, The Kingdom of Infinite Number, Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
- Bungharts, Hans-Joachim and Ralf-Peter Mundani and Anton Christian Frank, Bubbles, Jaws, Moose Tests, and More: The Wonderful World of Numerical Simulation. Reviewed by Paul E. Cohen
- Burger, Edward B., Exploring the Number Jungle: A Journey into Diophantine Analysis. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Burger, Edward B. and Michael Starbird, Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas. Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Burger, Edward B., and Michael Starbird, The Heart of Mathematics, Reviewed by Julian Fleron
- Burger, Edward B. and Robert Tubbs, Making Transcendence Transparent: An Intuitive Approach to Classical Transcendental Number Theory. Reviewed by Álvaro Lozano Robledo
- Byl, John, The Divine Challenge. Reviewed by Russell W. Howell
- Cabanes, Marc, and Michel Enguehard, Representation Theory of Finite Reductive Groups. Briefly noted
- Calinger, Ronald, A Contextual History of Mathematics: to Euler. Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
- Campbell-Kelly, Martin, et. al., eds., A History of Mathematical Tables. Briefly noted
- Cannell, D. M., George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841. Reviewed by David Graves
- Carlson, David, and Charles R. Johnson, David C. Lay, and A. Duane Porter, eds., Linear Algebra Gems. Reviewed by Michele Intermont
- Carlson, David, et. al., editors, Resources for Teaching Linear Algebra, Reviewed by Rebecca Berg
- Carpenter, Thomas P. and John A. Dossey, and Julie L. Koehler, eds., Classics in Mathematics Education Research. Reviewed by Hortensia Soto-Johnson
- Case, Bettye Anne and Anne M. Leggett, eds., Complexities: Women in Mathematics. Reviewed by Lisa DeKeukelaere
- Case, Susan H., The Scottish Café. Briefly noted
- Casti, John L., Five More Golden Rules, Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
- Casti, John L., Mathematical Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of All Time. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Casti, John L., The One True Platonic Heaven: a Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge. Reviewed by Jeremy Case
- Cerrai, Paola, and Paolo Freguglia and Claudio Pellegrini, eds., The Application of Mathematics to the Sciences of Nature: Critical Moments and Aspects. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
- Chabert, Jean-Luc, ed., A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Chaitin, Gregory J., Conversations with a Mathematician. Reviewed by Mark Johnson
- Chaitin, Gregory, Meta Math! The Search for Omega. Reviewed by Marion Cohen
- Chandrasekhar, S., The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes. Briefly noted.
- Chang, Gengzhe, and Thomas W. Sederberg, Over and Over Again, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Chartrand, Gary, and Ping Zhang, Introduction to Graph Theory. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
- Chen, Jin-Quan, Jialun Ping, and Fan Wong, Group Representation Theory for Physicists. Briefly noted.
- Christianidis, Jean, ed., Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Chung, Kai Lai, Chance and Choice: Memorabilia. Briefly noted
- Cipra, Barry, Misteaks ... and how to find them before the teacher does... . Reviewed by Antonella Cupillari
- Cipra, Barry, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, 1998-1999. Briefly noted.
- Cipra, Barry, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 5. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Clawson, Calvin C., Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers. Briefly noted.
- Clawson, Calvin C., Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing the Secrets of Numbers. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
- Clegg, Brian, Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable. Reviewed by Kevin R. Burger
- Cohen, Henri and Gerhard Frey, Roberto Avanzi, Christophe Doche, Tanja Lange, Kim Nguyen, and Frederik Vercauteren, Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Cohen, I. B., The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life. Reviewed by Judith V. Grabiner
- Cole, K. C., The Universe and the Teacup, Reviewed by William Berlinghoff
- Comenetz, Michael, Calculus: The Elements. Briefly noted
- Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004: Undergraduate Programs and Courses in the Mathematical Sciences. Reviewed by Peter Taylor
- Conquest, Wendy, Bob Drake, and Dan Rockmore, The Math Life. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
- Conway, John, On Numbers and Games. Second Edition. Briefly noted.
- Conway, John Horton, and Derek A. Smith, On Quaternions and Octonions. Reviewed by Michael Berg
- Coolidge, Julian Lowell, A History of Geometrical Methods. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
- Cooper, Jeffery, Working Analysis. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
- Copeland, B. Jack, ed., The Essential Turing. Briefly noted
- Corfield, David, Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics. Reviewed by Dennis Lomas
- Cosgrave, John B., A Prime for the Millennium. Briefly Noted.
- Costa, A. F., and B. GomezArabesques and Geometry, (Springer VideoMATH). Reviewed by Mark McKibben
- Cottle, Richard W., ed., The Basic George B. Dantzig. Briefly noted
- Coxeter, H. S. M., Non-Euclidean Geometry. Reviewed by Robert Stolz
- Crannell, Annalisa and Gavin LaRose and Thomas Ratliff, and Elyn Rykken, Writing Projects for Mathematics Courses: Crushed Clowns, Cars, and Coffee to Go. Reviewed by Susan Palmer Slattery
- Cromwell, Peter R., Polyhedra, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Crumey, Andrew, D'Alembert's Principle, Reviewed by G. L. Alexanderson
- Cuoco, Al, Mathematical Connections. Reviewed by Stephen B. Maurer
- Cuomo, S., Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity. Briefly noted.
- Curtis, Charles W., Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
- Dacorogna, Bernard, Introduction to the Calculus of Variations. Reviewed by Michael Berg
- Daepp, Ulrich, and Pamela Gorkin, Reading, Writing, and Proving: A Closer Look at Mathematics. Reviewed by Maria Fung
- Dajani, Karma, and Cor Kraaikamp, Ergodic Theory of Numbers. Reviewed by Jim Walsh
- Dale, Andrew I., Most Honorable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes. Briefly noted
- Dalen, Dirk van, Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of L.E.J. Brouwer, Volume 1, Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
- Dalen, Dirk van, Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of L. E. J. Brouwer, Vol. 2: Hope and Disillusion, by Dirk van Dalen. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
- Danesi, Marcel, The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time. Reviewed by Dick Fellow
- D'Angelo, John P., Inequalities from Complex Analysis. Reviewed by Jeffrey Nunemacher
- Darling, David, The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
- Dauben, Joseph W., and Christoph J. Scriba, eds., Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development. Briefly noted
- Davidoff, Giuliana, and Peter Sarnak. and Alain Valette, Elementary Number Theory, Group Theory and Ramanujan Graphs. Briefly noted
- Davis, Martin, The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing. Reviewed by Mark Johnson
- Davis, Philip J., Mathematical Encounters of the 2nd Kind, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Day, William H. E. and F. R. McMorris Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics. Reviewed by Donald G. Saari
- Dean, Nathaniel, editor, African Americans in Mathematics, Reviewed by James A. Donaldson
- DeLong, Matt and Dale Winter, Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Mathematics: Resources for Professional Development. Reviewed by George Ashline
- Densmore, Dana, ed., Euclid's Elements, translated by Thomas L. Heath. Briefly noted.
- dePillis, John, 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters. Briefly noted
- Derbyshire, John, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
- Devlin, Keith, The Language of Mathematics, Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
- Devlin, Keith, Life by the Numbers, Reviewed by Bernadette Mullins
- Devlin, Keith, The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
- Devlin, Keith, The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs). Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
- Devlin, Keith, The Millennium Problems. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Diacu, Florin, and Philip Holmes, Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability. Briefly noted.
- Dirichlet, P. G. L., Lectures in Number Theory, with supplements by Richard Dedekind. Briefly noted.
- DiSpezio, Michael A., Critical Thinking Puzzles, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
- Djukić, Dušan and Vladimir Janković and Ivan Matić and Nikola PetrovićThe IMO Compendium: A Collection of Problems Suggested for the International Mathematical Olympiads: 1959-2004. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Dorling, Daniel, and Simpson, Stephen, eds., Statistics in Society, Reviewed by Gudmund R. Iversen
- Dossey, John A., editor, Confronting the Core Curriculum, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Doxiadis, Apostolos, Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, Reviewed by Keith Devlin
- Drake, Stillman, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography. Briefly noted
- du Sautoy, Marcus, The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
- Dubinsky, E., D. Mathews and B. E. Reynolds, editors, Readings in Cooperative Learning for Undergraduate, Mathematics, Reviewed by Agnes Tuska
- Dudley, Underwood, Numerology, or What Pythagoras Wrought, Reviewed by Walter Sizer
- Dummit, David S., and Richard M. Foote, Abstract Algebra, Third Edition. Briefly noted.
- Dunham, William, Euler: The Master of Us All. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Dunnington, G. Waldo, Gauss: Titan of Science, with additional material by Jeremy Gray and Fritz-Egbert Dohse. Reviewed by Michael Berg
- Dyke, P. P. G., Managing Mathematical Projects — with Success!. Reviewed by Brigitte Servatius
- Edwards, A. W. F., Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams. Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Edwards, A. W. F., Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle: The story of a mathematical idea. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
- Edwards, Harold M., Essays in Constructive Mathematics. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
- Eisenbud, David, The Geometry of Syzygies: A Second Course in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Elaydi, Saber, An Introduction to Difference Equations, third edition. Briefly noted
- Emmer, Michele, ed., Mathematics and Culture I. Reviewed by Leon Harkleroad
- Emmer, Michele, and Mirella Manaresi, eds., Mathematics, Art, Technology and Cinema. Reviewed by David Acheson
- Engquist, Björn and Wilfried Schmid, eds., Mathematics Unlimited--2001 and Beyond. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, Drawbridge Up: Mathematics — A Cultural Anathema. Reviewed by Agnes Tuska
- Erdös, Paul, and János Surányi, Topics in Number Theory. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
- Eriksson, K. and D. Estep and C. Johnson, Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul (3 volumes). Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
- Esmonde, Jody, and M. Ram Murty, Problems in Algebraic Number Theory, Second Editon. Briefly noted.
- Estep, Donald, Practical Analysis in One Variable. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
- Euler, Leonhard, Foundations of the Differential Calculus, translated by John D. Blanton. Briefly noted.
- Everest, Graham and Thomas Ward, An Introduction to Number Theory. Reviewed by Rob Benedetto
- Eves, Howard, Mathematical Circles. Six volumes in three. Briefly noted
- Eves, Howard, Mathematical Reminiscences. Reviewed by Michael Berg.
- Ewald, William, ed., From Kant to Hilbert: a Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics. Briefly noted.
- Eymard, Pierre, and Jean-Pierre Lafon, The Number π. Reviewed by Henry Ricardo
- Farin, Gerald and Dianne Hansford, Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
- Fauvel, John, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson, eds., Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences. Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
- Feeman, Timothy G., Portraits of the Earth: A Mathematician Looks at Maps. Reviewed by Robert W. Vallin
- Feferman, Anita Burdman and Solomon Feferman, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
- Ferguson, Kitty, Measuring the Universe. Briefly noted.
- Fernandez, Clea and Makoto Yoshida, Lesson Study: A Japanese Approach to Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
- Finch, Stephen R., Mathematical Constants. Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Flannery, David, The Square Root of 2: A Dialogue Concerning a Number and a Sequence. Reviewed by Doug Ensley and John Ensley
- Flannery, Sarah, with David Flannery, In Code: A Mathematical Journey. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
- Flapan, Erica, When Topology Meets Chemistry: A Topological Look At Molecular Chirality. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
- Folkerts, Menso, Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics. Briefly noted
- Fox, Robert, ed., Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science. Briefly noted.
- Fowler, David, The Mathematics of Plato's Academy, Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Fraenkel, L. E., Introduction to Maximum Principles and Symmetry in Elliptic Problems. Briefly noted.
- Frame, M. L., and B. B. Mandelbrot, Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education. Reviewed by George Ashline
- Frankel, Theodore, The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction, Second Edition. Briefly noted
- Franklin, James, The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal. Briefly noted.
- Franzén, Torkel, Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse. Reviewed by Don Vestal
- Frederickson, Greg N., Dissections: Plane & Fancy, Reviewed by Sherman Stein
- Frederickson, Greg N., Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting. Briefly noted
- Freedman, David, Statistical Models: Theory and Practice. Reviewed by Ita Cirovic Donev
- Friedberg, Solomon, et. al., Teaching Mathematics in Colleges and Universities: Case Studies for Today's Classroom. Reviewed by Eileen Shugart
- Frucht, William, ed., Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems and Musings, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Gaither, C. C. and A. E. Cavazos-GaitherMathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Ganter, Susan L., Changing Calculus: A Report on Evaluation Efforts and National Impact from 1988-1998. Reviewed by Herbert Kasube
- Ganter, Susan, and William Barker, eds., Curriculum Foundations Project: Voices of the Partner Disciplines. Briefly noted
- Gardiner, A., The Mathematical Olympiad Handbook, Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
- Gardner, Martin, Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight: Aha! A Two Volume Collection. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Gardner, Martin, A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
- Gardner, Martin, Mathematical Puzzle Tales. Reviewed by Antonella Cupillari
- Gardner, Martin, Penrose Tiles To Trapdoor Ciphers, Reviewed by Richard Vinson
- Garfield, Joan, ed., Innovations in Teaching Statistics. Reviewed by Liam O'Brien
- Garrity, Thomas A., All the Mathematics You Missed [But Need to Know for Graduate School]. Reviewed by Mariah E. Hamel
- Gavosto, Estela A., Steven G. Krantz, and William McCallum, eds., Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education. Reviewed by Libby Krussel
- Gazalé, Midhat J., Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Gazalé, Midhat, Number: from Ahmes to Cantor. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
- Gebert, Jürgen Richter, and Ulrich H. Kortenkamp, Cinderella: The Interactive Geometry Software, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- George, Alexander, and Daniel J. Velleman, Philosophies of Mathematics. Reviewed by Bonnie Gold
- Georgiadou, Maria, Constantin Carathéodory: Mathematics and Politics in Turbulent Times. Reviewed by Michael Berg
- Gerdes, Paulus, Geometry from Africa: Mathematical and Educational Explorations, Reviewed by Karen Dee Michalowicz
- Gerdes, Paulus Women, Art, and Geometry in Southern Africa, Reviewed by Walter S. Sizer
- Gershenfeld, Neil A., The Nature of Mathematical Modeling. Reviewed by Mark McKibben
- Gibbons, Jean Dickinson, Ingram Olkin, and Milton Sobel, Selecting and Ordering Populations. Briefly noted.
- Gillispie, Charles Coulston, Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life In Exact Science, Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
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- Goodman, Jacob E., and Joseph O'Rourke, eds., Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry. Reviewed by Alex Bogomolny
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- Guedj, Denis, The Measure of the World. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Reviewed by Steven Morics
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- Heilbron, J. L., Geometry Civilized: History, Culture, and Technique, Reviewed by David Fowler
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- Herz-Fischler, Roger, The Shape of the Great Pyramid. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
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- Hida, Haruzo, Modular Forms and Galois Cohomology. Briefly noted.
- Higgins, Peter M., Mathematics for the Imagination. Reviewed by Steven Morics
- Hilton, Peter, and Derek Holton and Jean Pedersen, Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
- Hirsch, Morris, and Stephen Smale, and Robert L. Devaney, Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos. Briefly noted
- Hodge, Jonathan K. and Richard E. Klima, The Mathematics of Voting and Elections: A Hands-On Approach. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
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- Horton, Holbrook L., Mathematics at Work, edited by Henry H. Ryffel, Edward E. Messal, and Robert E. Green. Briefly noted.
- Houston, Ken, ed., Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection. Briefly noted.
- Howell, Russell W. and W. James, Bradley, eds., Mathematics in a Postmodern Age: A Christian Perspective. Reviewed by Bonnie Gold
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- Høyrup, Jens, Lengths, Widths, Surfaces: a Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and its Kin. Reviewed by Eleanor Robson
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- Huggett, Stephen, and David Jordan, A Topological Aperitif. Reviewed by Michael Berg
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- Ibe, Oliver C., Fundamentals of Applied Probability and Random Processes. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
- Israel, Georgio, and Ana Millán Gasca, eds., The Biology of Numbers: The Correspondence of Vito Volterra on Mathematical Biology. Briefly noted
- Ivic, Aleksandar, The Riemann Zeta-Function. Briefly noted
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- Jensen, Gary R., Arithmetic for Teachers: With Applications and Topics from Geometry. Reviewed by William P. Berlinghoff
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- Kaczor, W. J., and M. T. Nowak, Problems in Mathematical Analysis II: Continuity and Differentiation. Reviewed by Morteza Seddighin
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- Kazarinoff, Nicholas, D., Ruler and the Round: Classic Problems in Geometric Constructions. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
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- Kelley, C. T., Iterative Methods for Optimization. Briefly noted.
- Kenschaft, Patricia Clark, Mathematics for Human Survival. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
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- Kiltinen, John O., Oval Track and other Permutation Puzzles, and just enough group theory to solve them. Reviewed by Ruth I. Berger
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- Klein, Felix, Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis. Briefly noted
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- Knobel, Roger, An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Waves, Reviewed by Mark McKibben
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- Knuth, Donald E., Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About. (CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 136.) Briefly noted.
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- Kurzweil, Hans and Bernd Stellmacher, The Theory of Finite Groups: An Introduction. Briefly noted
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- Laubenbacher, Reinhard, and David Pengelley, Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers, Reviewed by Daniel E. Otero
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- Mattheij, Robert and Jaap Molenaar, Ordinary Differential Equations in Theory and Practice. Briefly noted
- Mathematics Learning Study Committee, Jeremy Kilpatrick, Jane Swafford and Bradford Findell, eds., Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics. Reviewed by Anne Brown
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- Maxwell, James Clerk, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, volumes one and two. Briefly noted.
- Mazur, Barry, Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen). Reviewed by Keith Devlin
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- Monastyrsky, Michael, Modern Mathematics in the Light of the Fields Medals, Reviewed by David P. Roberts
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- Mozzochi, C. J., The Fermat Diary. Reviewed by Robert A. McGuigan
- Murray, J. D., Mathematical Biology I: An Introduction. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
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- Musiela, Marek and Marek Rutkowski, Martingale Methods in Financial Modeling, second edition. Briefly noted
- Musielak, Dora, Sophie's Diary: A Historical Fiction. Reviewed by Judy Holdener
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- Nahin, Paul J., An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
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- Neal, Katherine, From Discrete to Continuous: The Broadening of Number Concepts in Early Modern England. Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
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- Niven, Ivan, Maxima and Minima Without Calculus. Reviewed by Kara Shane Colley
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- Olsen, Steve, Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition. Reviewed by Kathryn Weld
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- Panik, Michael J., Advanced Statistics from an Elementary Point of View. Reviewed by Darren Glass
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- Parzen, Emauel, Stochastic Processes. Briefly noted.
- Pears, Iain, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
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- Pipes, Richard, The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia. Reviewed by Karen Hunger Parshall
- Playfair, William, The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary. Reviewed by Gudmund Iversen
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- Posamentier, Alfred A. and Ingmar Lehmann, π: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number. Reviewed by David A. Huckaby
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- Pressley, Andrew, Elementary Differential Geometry. Briefly noted.
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- Radin, Charles, Miles of Tiles, Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
- Rahman, Matiur, and Isaac Mulolani, Applied Vector Analysis. Briefly noted.
- Rédei, Miklós, ed., John von Neumann: Selected Letters. Reviewed by Darren Glass
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- Rishel, Thomas W., Teaching First: A Guide for New Mathematicians. Reviewed by Solomon Friedberg
- Robert, Alain M., Linear Algebra: Examples and Applications. Reviewed by Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
- Roberts, A. Wayne, Minnesota Math League XXV. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
- Roberts, Paul C., Multiplicities and Chern Classes in Local Algebra. Briefly noted.
- Rocchi, Paolo, The Structural Theory of Probability: New Ideas from Computer Science on the Ancient Problem of Probability Interpretation. Briefly noted
- Rockmore, Dan, Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
- Rogers, Elizabeth C., Barbara E. Reynolds, Neil A. Davidson, and Anthony D. Thomas, eds., Cooperative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics: Issues that Matter and Strategies that Work. Reviewed by Andrew Perry.
- Ronan, Mark, Symmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics. Reviewed by Darren Glass
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- Ross, Clay C., Differential Equations: An Introduction with Mathematica, Second Edition. Briefly noted.
- Ross, Ken, A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans. Reviewed by Steve Morics
- Rota, Gian-Carlo, Indiscrete Thoughts, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
- Rothman, Tony, Everything's Relative and Other Fables from Science and Technology. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
- Rothstein, Edward, Emblems of Mind, Reviewed by Shai Simonson
- Rubenstein, Rheta and Charlene Beckmann and Denisse Thompson, Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics. Reviewed by George Ashline
- Runde, Volker, A Taste of Topology. Briefly noted
- Russo, Lucio, The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn. Reviewed by Samuel S. Kutler
- Saari, Donald G., Chaotic Elections!. Reviewed by Edward W. Packel
- Saari, Donald G., ed., The Way It Was: Mathematics from the Early Years of the Bulletin. Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
- Sabbagh, Karl, The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem of Mathematics. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
- Salsburg, David, The Lady Tasting Tea. Reviewed by Marc H. Mehlman
- Sánchez, David A., Ordinary Differential Equations: A Brief Eclectic Tour. Reviewed by Henry Ricardo
- Sangalli, Arturo, The Importance of Being Fuzzy, Reviewed by Mark Johnson
- Saraiva, Luís, ed., History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia II — Scientific Practices and the Portuguese Expansion in Asia (1498-1759). Briefly noted
- Savchev, Svetoslav, and Titu Andreescu, Mathematical Miniatures. Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
- Sawyer, W. W., Vision in Elementary Mathematics. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
- Saxe, Karen, Beginning Functional Analysis. Reviewed by Robert W. Vallin
- Schattschneider, Doris, M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry. Reviewed by Gerald L. Alexanderson
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- Schell, Michael J., Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters, Reviewed by Randall J. Swift
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- Schoenfeld, Alan, editor, Student Assessment in Calculus, Reviewed by Nkechi Madonna Agwu
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- Schubring, Gert, Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition: Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th-19th Century France and Germany. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
- Schwartz, Laurent, A Mathematician Grappling with His Century. Reviewed by Robert Dobrow
- Scorpan, Alexandru, The Wild World of 4-Manifolds. Briefly noted
- Segal, Sanford L., Mathematicians under the Nazis. Reviewed by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
- Seife, Charles, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
- Selden, Annie, and Ed Dubinsky, Guershon Harel, and Fernando Hitt, eds., Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education V. Reviewed by T. J. Murphy
- Selin, Helaine, and Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, eds., Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics. Briefly noted.
- Semple, J. G., G. T. Kneebone, Algebraic Projective Geometry. Briefly noted.
- Senn, Steven, Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health. Reviewed by Steven R. Dunbar
- Shafarevich, Igor R., Discourses on Algebra. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
- Shasha, Dennis, Dr. Ecco, Mathematical Detective. Reviewed by Sandra Kingan
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- Shenitzer, Abe and John Stilwell, eds., Mathematical Evolutions. Reviewed by David Graves
- Shiflet, Angela B. and George W. Shiflet, Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
- Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard, Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars: Documents and Studies for the Social History of Mathematics in the 20th Century. Reviewed by Karen Hunger Parshall
- Sierpiński, Wacław, Pythagorean Triangles. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
- Sigler, L. E., Fibonacci's Liber Abaci. Briefly noted
- Simmons, George F. and Steven G. Krantz, Differential Equations: Theory, Technique, and Practice. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
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- Smith, Robert T. and Roland B. Minton, Calculus: Concepts & Connections. Briefly noted
- Sohrab, Houshang H., Basic Real Analysis. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
- Sossinsky, Alexei, Knots: Mathematics with a Twist, translated by Giselle Weiss. Reviewed by Philip D. Straffin
- Spencer, Adam, Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers. Reviewed by Thomas J. Pfaff
- Spivak, Michael, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Calculus, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
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- Stedall, Jacqueline, The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals: John Wallis 1656. Briefly noted
- Stedall, Jacqueline, A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685. Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
- Stedall, Jacqueline A., The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations. Briefly noted
- Steele, J. Michael, The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class. Reviewed by Leo Livshits
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- Steen, Lynn Arthur, Executive Editor, Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy, prepared by The National Council on Education and the Disciplines. Reviewed by Steven R. Dunbar
- Steen, Lynn Arthur, ed., Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics. Reviewed by Dennis Lomas
- Stein, Elias M. and Rami Shakarchi, Fourier Analysis: An Introduction. Briefly noted
- Stein, Sherman, Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
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- Sterrett, Andrew, editor, 101 Careers in Mathematics, Reviewed by Yawa Dusé-Anthony
- Sterrett, Andrew, ed., 101 Careers in Mathematics, second edition. Briefly noted.
- Stephenson, Neal, Cryptonomicon. Briefly noted.
- Stewart, Ian, Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into.... Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
- Stewart, Ian, Flatterland. Reviewed by Thomas F. Banchoff
- Stewart, Ian, Letters to a Young Mathematician. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Stewart, Ian, The Magical Maze: Seeing the World through Mathematical Eyes, Reviewed by Sean Bradley
- Stigler, James W., and James Hiebert, The Teaching Gap, Reviewed by Rick Seaman
- Stopes-Roe, Mary, Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Stopple, Jeffrey, A Primer of Analytic Number Theory: From Pythagoras to Riemann. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
- Straley, Tina H., and Marcia P. Sward and Jon W. Scott, eds., Leading the Mathematical Sciences Department: A Resource for Chairs. Reviewed by John D. Fulton
- Strogatz, Steven, SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Reviewed by Philip J. Davis
- Stubhaug, Arild, The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It Was the Audacity of My Thinking. Reviewed by Jeremy Gray
- Stubhaug, Arild, Niels Henrik Abel and his Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar. Reviewed by Jeremy J. Gray
- Suppes, Patrick, and Shirley A. Hill, A First Course in Mathematical Logic. Briefly noted.
- Suppes, Patrick, Julius M. Moravcsik, and Henry Mendell, eds. Ancient & Medieval Traditions in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Memory of Wilbur Knorr. Briefly noted.
- Sussman, Gerald Jay, and Jack Wisdom, Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. Briefly noted.
- Swallow, John, Exploratory Galois Theory. Briefly noted
- Swerdlow, N. N., The Babylonian Theory of the Planets, Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
- Swetz, Frank J., Legacy of the Luoshu. Reviewed by Phillip D. Straffin
- Swinnerton-Dyer, H. P. F., A Brief Guide to Algebraic Number Theory. Briefly noted.
- Szpiro, George G., The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
- Tabachnikov, Serge, Geometry and Billiards. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
- Tabahnikov, Serge, ed., Kvant Selecta: Combinatorics I. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
- Tait, William, The Provenance of Pure Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Its History. Reviewed by Bonnie Gold
- Tanton, James, Solve This: Math Activities for Students and Clubs. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
- Tapp, Kristopher, Matrix Groups for Undergraduates. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Tattersall, James J., Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters. Briefly noted.
- Taylor, Alan D., Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation. Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Tenenbaum, Gérald, and Michel Mendès-France, The Prime Numbers and their Distribution. Reviewed by Michael Berg
- Terrall, Mary, The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Thakur, Dinesh, Function Field Arithmetic. Briefly noted
- Tisseyre, François, director, The CMI Millennium Meeting Video Collection. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
- Todhunter, Isaac, Plane Trigonometry for the Use of Colleges and Schools, With Numerous Examples. Briefly noted.
- Torchinsky, Alberto, Real-Variable Methods in Harmonic Analysis. Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
- Tufte, Edward R., Beautiful Evidence. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
- Tweddle, Ian, James Stirling's Methodus Differentialis: An Annotated Translation of Stirling's Text. Briefly noted
- Tweed Museum, Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, including articles by Stephen Luecking, John Sims, and Dennis White. Briefly noted
- Twomey, S., Introduction to the Mathematics of Inversion in Remote Sensing and Indirect Measurements. Briefly noted.
- Ueno, Kenji and Koji Shiga and Shigeyuki Morita, A Mathematical Gift I: The interplay between topology, functions, geometry, and algebra. Reviewed by Hortensia Soto-Johnson
- Vaderlind, Paul, Richard Guy and Loren Larson, The Inquisitive Problem Solver. Reviewed by Dick Fellow
- Vallée, Olivier, and Manuel Soares, Airy Functions and Applications to Physics. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
- van der Waerden, B. L., Algebra, volumes I and II. Briefly noted
- Varadarajan, V. S., Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
- Varadarajan, V. S., Euler Through Time: A New Look at Old Themes. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Vassilev, V. S., Introduction to Topology. Briefly noted.
- Väth, Martin, Integration Theory: A Second Course. Briefly noted.
- Vazsonyi, Andrew, Which Door Has the Cadillac: Adventures of a Real Life Mathematician. Reviewed by Nancy C. Weida
- Vorobiev, Nicolai N., Fibonacci Numbers. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
- Wagon, Stan and Wolfram Research, The Mathematical Explorer. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
- Wainer, Harold, Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
- Waismann, Friedrich, Introduction to Mathematical Thinking: The Formation of Concepts in Modern Mathematics. Reviewed by Marion Cohen
- Wallace, David Foster, Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞. Reviewed by Darren Glass
- Walser, Hans, 99 Points of Intersection: Examples, Pictures, Proofs. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
- Walser, Hans, The Golden Section. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
- Walser, Hans, Symmetry. Reviewed by Michele Intermont.
- Wapner, Leonard M., The Pea and the Sun. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
- Wasserman, Larry, All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference. Reviewed by Gudmund R. Iversen
- Watkins, John J., Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems. Briefly noted
- Wayne W. Daniel, Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences. Briefly noted
- Webster, Miriam, After Math. Reviewed by Karen Saxe
- Weeks, Jeffrey R., The Shape of Space. Reviewed by Colin Adams
- Weinreich, Gabriel, Geometrical Vectors, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
- Weiss, Richard M., The Structure of Spherical Buildings. Briefly noted
- Wells, David, Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
- Wickless, W. J., A First Graduate Course in Abstract Algebra. Briefly noted
- Widdows, Dominic, Geometry and Meaning. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
- Winkler, Peter, Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection. Reviewed by James Tanton
- Wilson, Alistair Macintosh, The INFINITE in the finite , Reviewed by Elena Anne Marchisotto
- Wilson, Robin, Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved. Reviewed by G. L. Alexanderson
- Wilson, Robin, Stamping Through Mathematics. Reviewed by Victor Katz.
- Wilson, Robin, and Jeremy Gray, eds., Mathematical Conversations. Reviewed by Branislav Kisacanin
- Winfree, Arthur T., The Geometry of Biological Time. Briefly noted
- Wolf, Robert S., Proof, Logic, and Conjecture: The Mathematician's Toolbox, Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
- Wolf-Wendel, Lisa and Susan B. Twombly and Suzanne Rice, The Two-Body Problem: Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education. Reviewed by Karen Saxe
- Wolfram, Stephen, A New Kind of Science. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
- Woodhouse, N. M. J., Special Relativity. Briefly noted
- Woods, R. Grant, Calculus Mysteries & Thrillers, Reviewed by Jeremy Case
- Yandell, Benjamin H., The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and their Solvers. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
- Yaschenko, V. V., ed., Cryptography: An Introduction. Briefly noted
- Yong, Lam Lay and Ang Tian Se, Fleeting Footsteps: Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China. Reviewed by Yibao Xu
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