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Mathematics and Democracy	The Sensual (Quadratic) Form	Hesiod's Anvil

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Mathematics And Democracy: Designing Better Voting And Fair-Division Procedures by Steven J. Brams Reviewed by Darren Glass	The Sensual (Quadratic) Form by John Horton Conway Reviewed by Michael Berg	Posted since January to MAA Reviews.
The Mathematics of Egypt Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam: A Sourcebook ed. by Victor J. Katz Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa	A View from the Top: Analysis, Combinatorics and Number Theory by Alex Iosevich Reviewed by Allen Stenger	Mathematical Logic by Ian Chiswell and Wilfrid Hodges Reviewed by Michael Berg
Euler and Modern Science ed. by N. N. Bogolyubov, G. K. Mikhaǐlov, and A. P. Yushkevich Reviewed by Michael Berg	A Mathematical Omnibus: : Thirty Lectures on Classic Mathematics by Dmitry Fuchs and Serge Tabachnikov Reviewed by Suzanne Caulk	Mathematical Masterpieces: Further Chronicles by the Explorers by Arthur Knoebel, Reinhard Laubenbacher, Jerry M. Lodder, and David Pengelley Reviewed by Mark Bollman
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch	A Certain Ambiguity by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal	Tales of Matheamticians and Physicists by Simon Gindikin Reviewed by Michael Berg
Differential Geometry and its Applications by John Oprea Reviewed by William J. Satzer	A Garden of Integrals by Frank E. Burk Reviewed by William J. Satzer	p-adic Analysis Compared with Real by Svetlana Katok Reviewed by Marion Cohen
Expounding the Mathematical Seed by Agathe Keller Reviewed by Aldine Aaten	Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail by Danica McKellar Reviewed by Mark Bollman	Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael A. B. Deakin Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa

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