Modeling and Applied Mathematics

• 200 Puzzling Physics Problems, by P. Gnädig, G. Honyek, and K. F. Riley. Reviewed by Agnes Tuska
  
• Airy Functions and Applications to Physics, by Olivier Vallée and Manuel Soares. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
  
• The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells, Third Edition, by Hans Meinhardt. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• The Application of Mathematics to the Sciences of Nature: Critical Moments and Aspects, ed. by Paola Cerrai, Paolo Freguglia, and Claudio Pellegrini. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul (3 volumes), by K. Eriksson, D. Estep, and C. Johnson. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
  
• Applied Partial Differential Equations, Second Edition, by J. David Logan. Briefly noted
  
• Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics, by William H. E. Day and F. R. McMorris. Reviewed by Donald G. Saari
  
• The Basic George B. Dantzig, ed. by Richard W. Cottle. Briefly noted
  
• Beautiful Evidence, by Edward R. Tufte. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• Between Inner Space and Outer Space, by John D. Barrow. Briefly noted.
  
• The Biology of Numbers: The Correspondence of Vito Volterra on Mathematical Biology, ed. by Giorgio Israel and Ana Millán Gasca. Briefly noted.
  
• Bioterrorism: Mathematical Modeling Applications in Homeland Security, ed. by H. T. Banks and Carlos Castillo-Chavez. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
  
• Chaotic Elections!, by Donald G. Saari. Reviewed by Edward W. Packel
  
• Calculated Bets, by Steven Skiena. Reviewed by Andrew Perry
  
• Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability, by Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes. Briefly noted.
  
• Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish Crypto Program During World War II, by Bengt Beckman. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Counting on Frameworks: Mathematics to Aid the Design of Rigid Structures, by Jack E. Graver. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• A Course in Mathematical Modeling, by Douglas Mooney and Randall Swift. Reviewed by Jan E. Holly
  
• Cryptography: An Introduction, edited by V. V. Yaschenko. Briefly noted
  
• Cryptological Mathematics, by Robert Edward Lewand. Reviewed by Thomas R. Berger
  
• Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game, by Jim Albert and Jay Bennett. Reviewed by J. Kevin Colligan
  
• Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health, by Stephen Senn. Reviewed by Steven R. Dunbar
  
• Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos, by Morris Hirsch, Stephen Smale, and Robert L. Devaney. Briefly noted
  
• Differential Equations: Theory, Technique, and Practice, by George F. Simmons and Steven G. Krantz. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices, by Max Born and Kun Huang. Briefly noted.
  
• Elementary Mathematical Models, by Dan Kalman. Reviewed by Kelly Black
  
• Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy, by Asger Aaboe. Reviewed by Tom Brennan
  
• Essential Mathematical Biology, by Nicholas F. Britten. Briefly noted
  
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, by George W. Mackey. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Fourier Series in Control Theory, by Vilmos Komornik and Paola Loreti. Briefly noted
  
• Fractals and Chaos: The Mandelbrot Set and Beyond, by Benoit B. Mandelbrot. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• From Calculus to Chaos, by David Acheson. Briefly noted.
  
• From Eudoxus to Einstein: A History of Mathematical Astronomy, by C. M. Linton. Reviewed by Glen Van Brummelen
  
• Geometry and Interpolation of Curves and Surfaces, by Robin J. Y. McLeod and M. Louisa Baart, Briefly noted.
  
• Geometry and Meaning, by Dominic Widdows. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
  
• Geometry at Work, ed. by Catherine A. Gorini. Reviewed by Randall J. Swift
  
• The Geometry of Biological Time, by Arthur T. Winfree. Briefly noted
  
• The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction, Second Edition, by Theodore Frankel. Briefly noted
  
• Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings, by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• Graphs, Algorithms and Optimization, by William Kocay and Donald L. Kreher. Briefly noted
  
• Group Representation Theory for Physicists, by Jin-Quan Chen, Jialun Ping, and Fan Wong. Briefly noted.
  
• Handbook of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography, by Henri Cohen, Gerhard Frey, Roberto Avanzi, Christophe Doche, Tanja Lange, Kim Nguyen, and Frederik Vercauteren. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Identification Numbers and Check Digit Schemes, by Joseph Kirtland. Reviewed by Doug Ensley.
  
• Industrial Mathematics: The 1998 CRSC Workshop, ed. by Pierre A. Gremaud, Zhilin Li, Ralph C. Smith, Hien T. Tran. Briefly noted.
  
• Instabilities, Chaos, and Turbulence: An Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems, by Paul Manneville. Briefly noted
  
• Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences, by Angela B. Shiflet and George W. Shiflet. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• An Introduction to Game-Theoretic Modelling, by Michael Mesterton-Gibbons. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
  
• An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Waves, by Roger Knobel. Reviewed by Mark McKibben
  
• Introduction to the Mathematics of Inversion in Remote Sensing and Indirect Measurements, by S. Twomey. Briefly noted.
  
• Iterative Methods for Optimization, by C. T. Kelley. Briefly noted.
  
• James Stirling's Methodus Differentialis: An Annotated Translation of Stirling's Text, by Ian Tweddle. Briefly noted
  
• Bubbles, Jaws, Moose Tests, and More: The Wonderful World of Numerical Simulation, by Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Ralf-Peter Mundani, and Anton Christian Frank. Reviewed by Paul E. Cohen
  
• Math & Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Dis ciplines, ed. by Lynn Arthur Steen. Reviewed by Judy Holdener
  
• The Math Behind the Music, by Leon Harkleroad. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• Mathematical Biology I: An Introduction, by J. D. Murray. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• Mathematical Modeling in the Environment, by Charles R. Hadlock. Reviewed by Leah Edelstein-Keshet
  
• Mathematical Models in Biology: An Introduction, by Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes. Reviewed by Judy Holdener
  
• Mathematical Perspectives on Theoretical Physics, by Nirmala Prakash. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes, by S. Chandrasekhar. Briefly noted.
  
• Mathematics and Art: Mathematical Visualization in Art and Education, ed. by Claude P. Bruter. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
  
• Mathematics and Music: A Diderot Mathematical Forum, edited by Gérard Assayag, Hans Georg Feichtinger, and José Francisco Rodrigues. Reviewed by Leon Harkleroad
  
• Mathematics at Work, by Holbrook L. Horton, edited by Henry H. Ryffel, Edward E. Messal, and Robert E. Green. Briefly noted.
  
• Mathematics for Human Survival, by Patricia Clark Kenschaft. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Mathematics in Nature, by John A. Adam. Reviewed by Steven Morics
  
• Mathematics in Service to the Community, ed. by Charles R. Hadlock. Reviewed by Hortensia Soto-Johnson
  
• The Mathematics of Juggling, by Burkard Polster. Reviewed by Kevin R. Burger
  
• The Mathematics of Voting and Elections: A Hands-On Approach, by Jonathan K. Hodge and Richard E. Klima. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
  
• Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra, by Carl D. Meyer. Reviewed by Joel Foisy
  
• Maxima and Minima Without Calculus, by Ivan Niven. Reviewed by Kara Shane Colley
  
• Measure for Measure: The Story of Imperial, Metric, and Other Units, by Alex Hebra. Briefly noted
  
• Miles of Tiles, by Charles Radin. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• Modern Advanced Mathematics for Engineers, by Vladimir V. Mitin, Dmitri A. Romanov, and Michael P. Polis. Briefly noted.
  
• The Nature of Mathematical Modeling, by Neil A. Gershenfeld. Reviewed by Mark McKibben
  
• A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
  
• The New Shepherd's Lamp, by Jean-Pierre Bourgignon, François Tisseyre, Claire Weingarten. Briefly noted.
  
• On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Horton Conway and Derek A. Smith. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Ordinary Differential Equations: A Brief Eclectic Tour, by David A. Sánchez. Reviewed by Henry Ricardo
  
• Ordinary Differential Equations in Theory and Practice, by Robert Mattheij and Jaap Molenaar. Briefly noted
  
• Paul Dirac: the man and his work, edited by Peter Goddard. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The Pleasures of Counting, by T.W. Körner. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The Quest for Unity, by Éttienne Klein and Marc Lachièze-Rey. Briefly noted.
  
• The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, by Roger Penrose. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
  
• Reading the Principia, by NiccolÙ Guicciardini. Reviewed by Jeremy Gray
  
• Revolutions in Differential Equations, ed. by Michael J. Kallaher. Reviewed by Jan E. Holly
  
• Selected Papers of Alan Hoffman with Commentary, edited by Charles A. Micchelli. Briefly noted
  
• The Shape of Space, by Jeffrey R. Weeks. Reviewed by Colin Adams
  
• Six Themes on Variation, ed. by Robert Hardt. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation, by Alan D. Taylor. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Special Relativity, by N. M. J. Woodhouse. Briefly noted
  
• Stable and Random Motion in Dynamical Systems, by Jürgen Moser. Briefly noted.
  
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom. Briefly noted.
  
• SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, by Steven Strogatz. Reviewed by Philip J. Davis
  
• A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, volumes one and two, by James Clerk Maxwell. Briefly noted.
  
• Understanding Our Quantitative World, by Janet Andersen and Todd Swanson. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• When Least is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible, by Paul Nahin. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• When Topology Meets Chemistry: A Topological Look At Molecular Chirality, by Erica Flapan. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton