Computer Science

• The Advent of the Algorithm, by David Berlinski. Reviewed by Allen B. Downey
  
• The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells, Third Edition, by Hans Meinhardt. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• 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
  
• Calculated Bets, by Steven Skiena. Reviewed by Andrew Perry
  
• Computational Excursions in Analysis and Number Theory, by Peter Borwein. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• Computers, Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do, by David Harel. Reviewed by J. Kevin Colligan
  
• A Course in Computational Number Theory, by David Bressoud and Stan Wagon. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics, by Stephen B. Maurer and Anthony Ralston. Reviewed by Alex Bogomolny
  
• The Essential Turing, ed. by B. Jack Copeland. Briefly noted
  
• Evaluating Derivatives, by Andreas Griewank. Reviewed by Dan Kalman
  
• Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education, by M. L. Frame and B. B. Mandelbrot. Reviewed by George Ashline
  
• Geometry and Meaning, by Dominic Widdows. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
  
• Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings, by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• 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
  
• A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip, Ed. by Jean-Luc Chabert. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• The Importance of Being Fuzzy, by Arturo Sangalli. Reviewed by Mark Johnson
  
• Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences, by Angela B. Shiflet and George W. Shiflet. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• John von Neumann, by Norman Macrae. Briefly noted.
  
• Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics: Compression, Simplification, and Multiresolusion, ed. by Jonathan Borwein, Maria H. Morales, Konrad Polthier, José F. Rodrigues. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
  
• Pi Unleashed, by by Jörg Arndt and Christoph Haenel. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• Practical Linear Algebra: A Geometry Toolbox, by Gerald Farin and Dianne Hansford. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
  
• Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald E. Knuth. (CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 136.) Briefly noted.
  
• Turing (A Novel about Computation), by Christos H. Papadimitriou. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, by Martin Davis. Reviewed by Mark Johnson