Fiction, Poetry, Art, Culture

• Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers, by Adam Spencer. Reviewed by Thomas J. Pfaff
  
• After Math, by Miriam Webster. Reviewed by Karen Saxe
  
• Beautiful Evidence, by Edward R. Tufte. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, ed. by the Tweed Museum, including articles by Stephen Luecking, John Sims, and Dennis White. Briefly noted
  
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. Briefly noted.
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon. Reviewed by Maria G. Fung
  
• D'Alembert's Principle, by Andrew Crumey. Reviewed by G. L. Alexanderson
  
• The Equations: Icons of Knowledge, by Sander Bais. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
  
• Flatterland, by Ian Stewart. Reviewed by Thomas F. Banchoff
  
• Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art, by Ivars Peterson. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
  
• The French Mathematician, by Tom Petsinis. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems and Musings, edited by William Frucht. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• The Little Book of Time, by Klaus Mainzer. Briefly noted
  
• M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry, by Doris Schattschneider. Reviewed by Gerald L. Alexanderson
  
• Manifold: Time, by Stephen Baxter. Briefly noted.
  
• The Math Behind the Music, by Leon Harkleroad. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• Mathematical Puzzle Tales, by Martin Gardner. Reviewed by Antonella Cupillari
  
• Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations, ed. by C. C. Gaither and A. E. Cavazos-Gaither. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Mathematics and Art: Mathematical Visualization in Art and Education, ed. by Claude P. Bruter. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
  
• Mathematics and Culture I, ed. by Michele Emmer. Reviewed by Leon Harkleroad
  
• Mathematics and Music: A Diderot Mathematical Forum, edited by Gérard Assayag, Hans Georg Feichtinger, and José Francisco Rodrigues. Reviewed by Leon Harkleroad
  
• Mathematics, Art, Technology and Cinema, ed. by Michele Emmer and Mirella Manaresi. Reviewed by David Acheson
  
• The Measure of the World, by Denis Guedj. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Reviewed by Steven Morics
  
• Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections, ed. by Raymond G. Ayoub. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
  
• The One True Platonic Heaven: a Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge, by John L. Casti. Reviewed by Jeremy Case
  
• The Parrot's Theorem: A Novel, by Denis Guedj. Reviewed by Gerald L. Alexanderson
  
• Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics, by Thomas Hull. Reviewed by Steven Frankel
  
• The Sand Reckoner, by Gillian Bradshaw. Reviewed by Reviel Netz
  
• The Scottish Café, by Susan H. Case. Briefly noted
  
• Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation, by Alan D. Taylor. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Turing (A Novel about Computation), by Christos H. Papadimitriou. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, by Apostolos Doxiadis. Reviewed by Keith Devlin
  
• The Wild Numbers, by Philibert Schogt. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa