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Index to All Book Reviews
by Title

• The 15 Puzzle: How It Drove the World Crazy, by Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• 101 Careers in Mathematics, edited by Andrew Sterrett, Reviewed by Yawa Dusé-Anthony
  
• 101 Careers in Mathematics, second edition, ed. by Andrew Sterrett. Briefly noted.
  
• 1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics, by David Acheson. Reviewed by Teri J. Murphy and Henry J. Neeman
  
• 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics, ed. by Reuben Hersh. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• 200 Puzzling Physics Problems, by P. Gnädig, G. Honyek, and K. F. Riley. Reviewed by Agnes Tuska
  
• 777 Mathematical Conversation Starters, by John dePillis. Briefly noted
  
• 99 Points of Intersection: Examples, Pictures, Proofs, by Hans Walser. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability, by Peter Pesic. Reviewed by David Graves
  
• Abstract Algebra, Third Edition, by David S. Dummit and Richard M. Foote. Briefly noted.
• Achieving Quantitative Literacy, by Lynn Arthur Steen. Reviewed by Charlotte Chell
  
• Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems, by John J. Watkins. Briefly noted
  
• Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers, by Adam Spencer. Reviewed by Thomas J. Pfaff
  
• Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics, by the Mathematics Learning Study Committee, Jeremy Kilpatrick, Jane Swafford and Bradford Findell, eds. Reviewed by Anne Brown
  
• Adolph Zeising: The Life and Work of a German Intellectual , by Roger Herz-Fischler. Briefly noted
  
• Advanced Statistics from an Elementary Point of View, by Michael J. Panik. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• The Advent of the Algorithm, by David Berlinski. Reviewed by Allen B. Downey
  
• Adventures in Group Theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's Machine, and Other Mathematical Toys, by David Joyner. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• African Americans in Mathematics, edited by Nathaniel Dean, Reviewed by James A. Donaldson
  
• After Math, by Miriam Webster. Reviewed by Karen Saxe
  
• Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight: Aha! A Two Volume Collection, by Martin Gardner. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Airy Functions and Applications to Physics, by Olivier Vallée and Manuel Soares. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
  
• Albert Einstein, Chief Engineer of the Universe: One Hundred Authors for Einstein, Einstein's Life and Work in Context and Documents of a Life's Pathway (three volunes), ed. by Jürgen Renn. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, by Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• Algebra, volumes I and II, by B. L. van der Waerden. Briefly noted
  
• Algebra and Geometry, by Alan F. Beardon. Reviewed by Stephen Ahearn
  
• Algebra from A to Z, Vols 1-5, by A.W. Goodman. Briefly noted.
  
• Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times, by V. S. Varadarajan, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Algebraic Numbers and Algebraic Functions, by Emil Artin. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Algebraic Projective Geometry, by J. G. Semple and G. T. Kneebone. Briefly noted.
  
• The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells, Third Edition, by Hans Meinhardt. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference, by Larry Wasserman. Reviewed by Gudmund R. Iversen
  
• All the Mathematics You Missed [But Need to Know for Graduate School], by Thomas A. Garrity. Reviewed by Mariah E. Hamel
  
• The Analysis of Variance, by Henry Scheffé. Briefly noted.
  
• Analytic Number Theory: An Introductory Course, by Paul T. Bateman and Harold G. Diamond. Briefly noted.
  
• Ancient & Medieval Traditions in the Exact Sciences: Essays in Memory of Wilbur Knorr, ed. by Patrick Suppes, Julius M. Moravcsik, and Henry Mendell. Briefly noted.
  
• Angles of Reflection: Logic and Mother's Love, by Joan Richards. Reviewed by Libby Krussel
  
• Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into..., by Ian Stewart. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• Anthology of Statistics in Sports, edited by Jim Albert, Jay Bennett, and James J. Cochran. Briefly noted
  
• 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
  
• Applied Vector Analysis, by Matiur Rahman and Isaac Mulolani. Briefly noted.
  
• Arabesques and Geometry, by A. F. Costa and B. Gomez (Springer VideoMATH). Reviewed by Mark McKibben
  
• Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?, by Sherman Stein, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Arithmetic for Teachers: With Applications and Topics from Geometry, by Gary R. Jensen. Reviewed by William P. Berlinghoff
  
• The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals: John Wallis 1656, by Jacqueline A. Stedall. Briefly noted
  
• The Art of Conjecturing, together with "Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis", by Jacob Bernoulli, translated with an introduction and notes by Edith Dudley Sylla. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The Art of the Infinite, by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan. Reviewed by Steve Kennedy
  
• Assessment Practices in Undergraduate Mathematics, edited by Bonnie Gold, Sandra Keith, and William Marion, Reviewed by Gideon L. Weinstein
  
• Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics, by William H. E. Day and F. R. McMorris. Reviewed by Donald G. Saari
  
• The Babylonian Theory of the Planets, by N. M. Swerdlow, Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters, by Michael J. Schell, Reviewed by Randall J. Swift
  
• The Basic George B. Dantzig, ed. by Richard W. Cottle. Briefly noted
  
• Basic Real Analysis, by Houshang H. Sohrab. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
  
• Basic Linear Algebra, by T. S. Blyth and E. F. Robertson. Reviewed by Maria G. Fung
  
• Basic Set Theory, by Azriel Levy. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Basic Set Theory, by A. Shen and N. K. Verschagin. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Beautiful Evidence, by Edward R. Tufte. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• Becoming a Reflective Mathematics Teacher: A Guide for Observations and Self-Assessment, by Alice F. Artzt and Eleanor Armour-Thomas. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
  
• Beginning Functional Analysis, by Karen Saxe. Reviewed by Robert W. Vallin
  
• The Beginnings and Evolution of Algebra, by Isabella Bashmakova and Galina Smirnova, Reviewed by G. L. Alexanderson
  
• Bernhard Riemann 1826-1866, by Detlef Laugwitz, Reviewed by David Roberts
  
• Bernhard Riemann, Collected Papers, translated by Roger Baker, Charles Christenson and Henry Orde. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Between Inner Space and Outer Space, by John D. Barrow. Briefly noted.
  
• Big Ideas for Small Mathematicians: Kids Discovering the Beauty of Math With 22 Ready-To-Go Activities, by Ann Kajander. Reviewed by Laurie Johnson
  
• The Biology of Numbers: The Correspondence of Vito Volterra on Mathematical Biology, ed. by Giorgio Israel and Ana Millán Gasca. Briefly noted.
  
• Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences, by Wayne W. Daniel. Briefly noted
  
• Bioterrorism: Mathematical Modeling Applications in Homeland Security, ed. by H. T. Banks and Carlos Castillo-Chavez. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
  
• Blueprints for Reform, from the AAAS "Project 2061", Reviewed by Joel S. Foisy
  
• Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles, by David Wells. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians, by Maurice Mashaal. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• A Brief Guide to Algebraic Number Theory, by H. P. F. Swinnerton-Dyer. 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
  
• Calculated Bets, by Steven Skiena. Reviewed by Andrew Perry
  
• Calculus, by Elliot C. Gootman, Reviewed by Steve Benson
  
• Calculus Mysteries & Thrillers, by R. Grant Woods, Reviewed by Jeremy Case
  
• The Calculus of Variations, by Bruce van Brunt. Briefly noted
  
• Calculus: Concepts & Connections, by Robert T. Smith and Roland B. Minton. Briefly noted
  
• Calculus: Problems and Solutions, by A. Ginzburg. Briefly noted
  
• Calculus: The Elements, by Michael Comenetz. Briefly noted
  
• Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer, by Anthony Grafton. Briefly noted.
  
• The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class, by J. Michael Steele. Reviewed by Leo Livshits
  
• Categories and Modules: With K-theory in View, by A. J. Berrick and M. E. Keating. Briefly noted.
  
• Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability, by Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes. Briefly noted.
  
• Challenges in Geometry: For Mathematical Olympians Past and Present, by Christopher J. Bradley. Briefly noted
  
• Chance and Choice: Memorabilia, by Kai Lai Chung. Briefly noted
  
• Chance, Luck and Statistics, by Horace C. Levinson. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• Changing Calculus: A Report on Evaluation Efforts and National Impact from 1988-1998, by Susan L. Ganter. Reviewed by Herbert Kasube
  
• The Changing Shape of Geometry: Celebrating a Century of Geometry and Geometry Teaching, ed. by Chris Pritchard. Reviewed by Alexander Bogomolny
  
• Chaotic Elections!, by Donald G. Saari. Reviewed by Edward W. Packel
  
• Cinderella: The Interactive Geometry Software, by JÍrgen Richter Gebert and Ulrich H. Kortenkamp, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Classical and Modern Fourier Analysis, by Loukas Grafakos. Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
  
• Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics, ed. by Jean Christianidis. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The CMI Millennium Meeting Video Collection, Directed by Francois Tisseyre. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish Crypto Program During World War II, by Bengt Beckman. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams, by A. W. F. Edwards. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas, by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Combinatorial Group Theory: Presentations of Groups in Terms of Generators and Relations, by W. Magnus, A. Karrass, and D. Solitar. Reviewed by Joseph Rotman
  
• Combinatorics, by Daniel A. Marcus, Reviewed by Ruth Michler
  
• Combinatorics and Graph Theory, by John M. Harris, Jeffry L. Hirst, Michael J. Mossinghoff. Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
  
• Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, two volumes, edited by I. Grattan-Guinness. Briefly noted
  
• A Companion to Analysis: A Second First and First Second Course in Analysis, by T. W. Körner. Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
  
• Complex Analysis, by John M. Howie. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint, Second Edition, by Steven G. Krantz. Reviewed by Bogdan D. Suceavă
  
• Complexities: Women in Mathematics, ed. by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett. Reviewed by Lisa DeKeukelaere
  
• 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
  
• Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition: Number Concepts Underlying the Development of Analysis in 17th-19th Century France and Germany, by Gert Schubring. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
  
• Confronting the Core Curriculum, edited by John A. Dossey, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Conjecture and Proof, by Miklós Laczkovich. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Conned Again, Watson: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability, by Colin Bruce. Reviewed by Daniel H. Cohen
  
• Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, ed. by the Tweed Museum, including articles by Stephen Luecking, John Sims, and Dennis White. Briefly noted
  
• Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education, edited by Estela A. Gavosto, Steven G. Krantz, and William McCallum. Reviewed by Libby Krussel
  
• The Contest Problem Book V, by George Berzsenyi and Stephen B. Maurer, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
  
• The Contest Problem Book VI: American High School Mathematics Examinations 1989-1994, by Leo J. Schneider. Briefly noted.
  
• The Contest Problem Book: American Mathematics Competitions 1995-2000 Contests, Book VII, compiled and augmented by Harold B. Reiter. Reviewed by Brian Borchers
  
• A Contextual History of Mathematics: to Euler, by Ronald Calinger. Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
  
• Conversations with a Mathematician, by Gregory J. Chaitin. Reviewed by Mark Johnson
  
• Cooperative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics: Issues that Matter and Strategies that Work, ed. by Elizabeth C. Rogers, Barbara E. Reynolds, Neil A. Davidson, and Anthony D. Thomas. Reviewed by Andrew Perry.
  
• Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), Volume I (1641–1659), ed. by Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba. Briefly noted
  
• Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition, by Steve Olsen. Reviewed by Kathryn Weld
  
• Counting on Frameworks: Mathematics to Aid the Design of Rigid Structures, by Jack E. Graver. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• A Course in Computational Number Theory, by David Bressoud and Stan Wagon. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• A Course in Mathematical Modeling, by Douglas Mooney and Randall Swift, Reviewed by Jan E. Holly
  
• Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection, ed. by Ken Houston. Briefly noted.
  
• Critical Thinking Puzzles, by Michael A. DiSpezio, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
  
• Crossing the River with Dogs: Problem Solving for College Students, by Ken Johnson, Ted Herr, and Judy Kysh. Briefly noted
  
• Cryptography: An Introduction, edited by V. V. Yaschenko. Briefly noted
  
• Cryptological Mathematics, by Robert Edward Lewand. Reviewed by Thomas R. Berger
  
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. Briefly noted.
  
• CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004: Undergraduate Programs and Courses in the Mathematical Sciences, A Report by the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics. Reviewed by Peter Taylor
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon. Reviewed by Maria G. Fung
  
• Curriculum Foundations Project: Voices of the Partner Disciplines, ed. by Susan Ganter and William Barker. Briefly noted
  
• Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game, by Jim Albert and Jay Bennett. Reviewed by J. Kevin Colligan
  
• D'Alembert's Principle, by Andrew Crumey, Reviewed by G. L. Alexanderson
  
• The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia, by Richard Pipes. Reviewed by Karen Hunger Parshall
  
• The Development of Mathematics, 1950-2000, ed. by Jean-Paul Pier. Briefly noted.
  
• The Development of Prime Number Theory, by W. Narkiewicz. Briefly noted.
  
• Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health, by Stephen Senn. Reviewed by Steven R. Dunbar
  
• Differential Equations: An Introduction with Mathematica, Second Edition, by Clay C. Ross. Briefly noted.
  
• 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
  
• Differential Geometry: Curves — Surfaces — Manifolds, by Wolfgang Kühnel. Briefly noted.
  
• Diophantus and Diophantine Equations, by Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova, Reviewed by David Graves
  
• A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685, by Jacqueline Stedall. Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
  
• Discourses on Algebra, by Igor R. Shafarevich. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• Discovering Number Theory, by Jeff Holt and John Jones. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics, by Stephen B. Maurer and Anthony Ralston. Reviewed by Alex Bogomolny
  
• Discrete Mathematics: Elementary and Beyond, by L. Lovasz, J. Pelikan, and K. Vesztergombi. Reviewed by Michele Intermont
  
• Dissections: Plane & Fancy, by Greg N. Frederickson, Reviewed by Sherman Stein
  
• The Divine Challenge, by John Byl. Reviewed by Russell W. Howell
  
• Doing Mathematics, by Martin H. Krieger. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Dr. Ecco, Mathematical Detective, by Dennis Shasha. Reviewed by Sandra Kingan
  
• Dr. Math Gets You Ready for Algebra, by The Math Forum. Reviewed by Hema Gopalakrishnan
  
• Drawbridge Up: Mathematics — A Cultural Anathema, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Reviewed by Agnes Tuska
  
• Dueling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers, by Paul Nahin. Briefly noted.
  
• Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices, by Max Born and Kun Huang. Briefly noted.
  
• Early History of Mathematics, by Tom M. Apostol. Reviewed by David Graves
  
• The Education of a Mathematician, by Philip J. Davis. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
  
• The Eightfold Way: The Beauty of Klein's Quartic Curve, ed. by Silvio Levy. Reviewed by Ruth Michler
  
• Einstein in Love, by Dennis Overbye. Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
  
• Elementary Algebraic Geometry, by Klaus Hulek. Reviewed by José Felipe Voloch
  
• Elementary Differential Geometry, by Andrew Pressley. Briefly noted.
  
• Elementary Mathematical Models, by Dan Kalman, Reviewed by Kelly Black
  
• Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis, by Felix Klein. Briefly noted
  
• Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry, by Felix Klein. Briefly noted
  
• Elementary Number Theory and its Applications, 5th Edition, by Kenneth H. Rosen. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Elementary Number Theory, Group Theory and Ramanujan Graphs, by Giuliana Davidoff, Peter Sarnak. and Alain Valette. Briefly noted
  
• Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, by James J. Tattersall. Briefly noted.
  
• Emblems of Mind, by Edward Rothstein, Reviewed by Shai Simonson
  
• Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy, by Asger Aaboe. Reviewed by Tom Brennan
  
• Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam, by J. L. Berggren. Briefly noted
  
• The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry, by Mario Livio. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• The Equations: Icons of Knowledge, by Sander Bais. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
  
• Equations and Inequalities: Elementary Problems and Theorems in Algebra and Number Theory, by Jiri Herman, Radan Kucera, and Jaromir Simsa. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Ergodic Theory of Numbers, by Karma Dajani and Cor Kraaikamp. Reviewed by Jim Walsh
  
• Essays in Constructive Mathematics, by Harold M. Edwards. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics, by Menso Folkerts. Briefly noted
  
• Essays on Numbers and Figures, by V. V. Prasolov. Reviewed by Steven Morics
  
• Essays on the History of Mechanics, ed. by Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce, Orietta Pedemonte. Briefly noted
  
• Essential Mathematical Biology, by Nicholas F. Britten. Briefly noted
  
• The Essential Turing, ed. by B. Jack Copeland. Briefly noted
  
• Essentials of Mathematics: Introduction to Theory, Proof, and the Professional Culture, by Margie Hale. Reviewed by Marion Cohen
  
• Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truths in Logic and Math, by Joseph Mazur. Reviewed by Stacy Langton
  
• Euclid: the Creation of Mathematics, by Benno Artmann, Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• Euclid's Elements, translated by Thomas L. Heath, edited by Dana Densmore. Briefly noted.
  
• Euler: The Master of Us All, by William Dunham, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Euler Through Time: A New Look at Old Themes, by V. S. Varadarajan. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Evaluating Derivatives, by Andreas Griewank. Reviewed by Dan Kalman
  
• Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞, by David Foster Wallace. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Everything's Relative and Other Fables from Science and Technology, by Tony Rothman. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Excursions into Mathematics, Millennium Edition, by Anatole Beck, Michael N. Bleicher, and Donald W. Crowe. Briefly noted.
  
• Experimentation in Mathematics: Computational Paths to Discovery, by Jonathan Borwein, David Bailey, and Roland Girgensohn. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Exploratory Galois Theory, by John Swallow. Briefly noted
  
• Exploring, Investigating and Discovering in Mathematics, by Vasile Berinde. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Exploring the Number Jungle: A Journey into Diophantine Analysis, by Edward B. Burger. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Extension Theory, by Hermann Grassmann. Briefly Noted.
  
• Fearless Symmetry: Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers, by Avner Ash and Robert Gross. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• The Fermat Diary, by C. J. Mozzochi. Reviewed by Robert A. McGuigan
  
• Fermat's Last Theorem for Amateurs, by Paulo Ribenboim, Reviewed by David Graves
  
• A First Graduate Course in Abstract Algebra, by W. J. Wickless. Briefly noted
  
• Flexagons Inside Out, by Les Pook. Reviewed by Robert McGuigan
  
• Fibonacci Numbers, by Nicolai N. Vorobiev. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
  
• Fibonacci's Liber Abaci, by L. E. Sigler. Briefly noted
  
• Field Theory and its Classical Problems, by Charles Robert Hadlock. Briefly noted.
  
• A First Course in Abstract Algebra: Rings, Groups, and Fields, by Marlow Anderson and Todd Feil. Briefly noted
  
• A First Course in Mathematical Logic, by Patrick Suppes and Shirley A. Hill. Briefly noted.
  
• A First Course in Topology: Continuity and Dimension, by John McCleary. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Five More Golden Rules, by John L. Casti, Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Flatterland, by Ian Stewart. Reviewed by Thomas F. Banchoff
  
• Fleeting Footsteps: Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China, by Lam Lay Yong and Ang Tian Se. Reviewed by Yibao Xu
  
• The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn, by Lucio Russo. Reviewed by Samuel S. Kutler
  
• Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street, by William Poundstone. Reviewed by Toby Donaldson
  
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, by George W. Mackey. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Foundations of the Differential Calculus, by Leonhard Euler, translated by John D. Blanton. Briefly noted.
  
• Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved, by Robin Wilson. Reviewed by G. L. Alexanderson
  
• Fourier Analysis: An Introduction, by Elias M. Stein and Rami Shakarchi. Briefly noted
  
• The Fourier-Analytic Proof of Quadratic Reciprocity, by Michael C. Berg. Briefly noted.
  
• Fourier Series, by Rajendra Bhatia. Reviewed by Brandy J. Lipton
  
• 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
  
• Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education, by M. L. Frame and B. B. Mandelbrot. Reviewed by George Ashline
  
• 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
  
• A Fresh Start for Collegiate Mathematics: Rethinking the Courses below Calculus, ed. by Nancy Baxter Hastings. Reviewed by James Poinsett
  
• A Friendly Mathematics Competition: 35 Years of Teamwork in Indiana, by Rick Gillman. Reviewed by Henry Ricardo
  
• From Calculus to Chaos, by David Acheson. Briefly noted.
  
• From Discrete to Continuous: The Broadening of Number Concepts in Early Modern England, by Katherine Neal. Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
  
• From Eudoxus to Einstein: A History of Mathematical Astronomy, by C. M. Linton. Reviewed by Glen Van Brummelen
  
• From Kant to Hilbert: a Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics, ed by William Ewald. Briefly noted.
  
• Function Field Arithmetic, by Dinesh Thakur. Briefly noted
  
• Fundamental Groups and Covering Spaces, by Elon Lages Lima, translated by Jonas Gomes. Briefly noted
  
• Fundamentals of Applied Probability and Random Processes, by Oliver C. Ibe. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• Further Linear Algebra, by T.S. Blyth and E.F. Robertson. Reviewed by Morteza Seddighin
  
• Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, by Stillman Drake. Briefly noted
  
• Galileo: When the World Stood Still, by Atle Næss. Reviewed by Alexander J. Hahn
  
• Galois Theory of p-Extensions, by Helmut Koch. Briefly noted
  
• Games of No Chance, edited by Richard J. Nowakowski, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant, by Julian Havil. Reviewed by Jeremy Gray
  
• A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit, by Martin Gardner. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• Gauss: Titan of Science, by G. Waldo Dunnington, with additional material by Jeremy Gray and Fritz-Egbert Dohse. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• The Genius of Science: a Portrait Gallery, by Abraham Pais. Briefly noted.
  
• Geometric Problems on Maxima and Minima, by Titu Andreescu, Oleg Mushkarov, and Luchezar Stoyanov. Reviewed by Henry Ricardo
  
• A Geometrical Picture Book, by Burkard Polster, Reviewed by Elena Anne Marchisotto
  
• Geometrical Vectors, by Gabriel Weinreich, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
  
• Geometry, by David. A. Barnnan, Matthew F. Esplen, and Jeremy J. Gray, Reviewed by J. I. Hall
  
• Geometry: A Self-Teaching Guide, by Steve Slavin and Ginny Crisonino. Reviewed by Kara Shane Colley
  
• Geometry: Euclid and Beyond, by Robin Hartshorne. Reviewed by Morteza Seddighin
  
• Geometry and Billiards, by Serge Tabachnikov. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• Geometry and Interpolation of Curves and Surfaces, by Robin J. Y. McLeod and M. Louisa Baart, Briefly noted.
  
• Geometry and Its Applications, 2nd edition, by Walter Meyer. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Geometry and Meaning, by Dominic Widdows. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
  
• Geometry at Work, ed. by Catherine A. Gorini. Reviewed by Randall J. Swift
  
• Geometry Civilized: History, Culture, and Technique, by J. L. Heilbron, Reviewed by David Fowler
  
• Geometry from Africa: Mathematical and Educational Explorations, by Paulus Gerdes, Reviewed by Karen Dee Michalowicz
  
• The Geometry of Biological Time, by Arthur T. Winfree. Briefly noted
  
• The Geometry of Numbers, by C. D. Olds, Anneli Lax, and Giuliana Davidoff. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
  
• The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction, Second Edition, by Theodore Frankel. Briefly noted
  
• The Geometry of Syzygies: A Second Course in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, by David Eisenbud. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Geometry: Our Cultural Heritage, by Audun Holme. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841, by D. M. Cannell. Reviewed by David Graves
  
• The Glass Wall: Why Mathematics Can Seem Difficult, by Frank Smith. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
  
• Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals, by Midhat J. Gazalé, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse, by Torkel Franzén. Reviewed by Don Vestal
  
• The Golden Section, by Hans Walser. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
  
• Gnomes in the Fog, by Dennis E. Hesseling. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings, by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• Graph Theory 1736-1936, by N. L. Biggs, E. K. Lloyd, and R. J. Wilson. Briefly noted.
  
• Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures, by Howard Wainer. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
  
• Graphs, Algorithms and Optimization, by William Kocay and Donald L. Kreher. Briefly noted
  
• Great Jobs For Math Majors, by Stephen Lambert and Ruth J. DeCotis, Reviewed by David R. Stone
  
• The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations, by Jacqueline A. Stedall. Briefly noted
  
• Grothendieck-Serre Correspondence: Bilingual Edition. Briefly noted
  
• Group Representation Theory for Physicists, by Jin-Quan Chen, Jialun Ping, and Fan Wong. Briefly noted.
  
• H-Transforms: Theory and Applications, by Anatoly A. Kilbas and Megumi Saigo. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
  
• Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, ed. by Jacob E. Goodman and Joseph O'Rourke. Reviewed by Alex Bogomolny
  
• 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
  
• Heads or Tails: An Introduction to Limit Theorems in Probability, by Emmanuel Lesigne. Reviewed by Gudmund R. Iversen
  
• The Heart of Mathematics, by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird, Reviewed by Julian Fleron
  
• The Hilbert Challenge, by Jeremy J. Gray. Reviewed by David Graves
  
• Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting, by Greg N. Frederickson. Briefly noted
  
• Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, ed. by Victor J. Katz and Karen Dee Michalowicz. Reviewed by John McCleary
  
• A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip, Ed. by Jean-Luc Chabert. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• A History of Geometrical Methods, by Julian Lowell Coolidge. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane.
• History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia II — Scientific Practices and the Portuguese Expansion in Asia (1498-1759), ed. by Luís Saraiva. Briefly noted
  
• A History of Mathematical Tables, ed. by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Mary Croarken, Raymond Flood, and Eleanor Robson. Briefly noted
  
• A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity, by Luke Hodgkin. Reviewed by Herbert Kasube
  
• A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Calculus, by Michael Spivak, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
  
• The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and their Solvers, by Benjamin H. Yandell. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
  
• How Chinese Learn Mathematics: Perspectives from Insiders, ed. by Fan Lianghuo, Wong Ngai-Ying, Cai Jinfa, and Li Shiqi. Briefly noted
  
• How the Other Half Thinks, by Sherman Stein. Reviewed by Stacy Langton
  
• How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide, by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass, Reviewed by Steve Benson
  
• How to Ace the Rest of Calculus: The Streetwise Guide, by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass. Reviewed by Kevin Anderson
  
• How To Teach Mathematics (Second Edition), by Steven G. Krantz, Reviewed by Rick Seaman
  
• Hungarian Problem Book III, edited by Andy Liu. Briefly noted.
  
• Huygens: The Man Behind the Principle, by C. D. Andriesse. Reviewed by Steven Frankel
  
• I Want to Be a Mathematician... An Automathography, by Paul R. Halmos. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Identification Numbers and Check Digit Schemes, by Joseph Kirtland. Reviewed by Doug Ensley.
  
• Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems and Musings, edited by William Frucht, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1, by Paul J. Nahin, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen), by Barry Mazur. Reviewed by Keith Devlin
  
• The IMO Compendium: A Collection of Problems Suggested for the International Mathematical Olympiads: 1959-2004, by Dušan Djukić, Vladimir Janković, Ivan Matić, and Nikola Petrović. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The Importance of Being Fuzzy, by Arturo Sangalli, Reviewed by Mark Johnson
  
• In Code: A Mathematical Journey, by Sarah Flannery with David Flannery. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
  
• Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, by Rebecca Goldstein. Reviewed by John Martin
  
• In Pólya's Footsteps, by Ross Honsberger, Reviewed by David Graves
  
• Indiscrete Thoughts, by Gian-Carlo Rota and , Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
  
• Industrial Mathematics: The 1998 CRSC Workshop, ed. by Pierre A. Gremaud, Zhilin Li, Ralph C. Smith, Hien T. Tran. Briefly noted.
  
• Inequalities from Complex Analysis, by John P. D'Angelo. Reviewed by Jeffrey Nunemacher
  
• The INFINITE in the finite , by Alistair Macintosh Wilson, Reviewed by Elena Anne Marchisotto
  
• Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable, by Brian Clegg. Reviewed by Kevin R. Burger
  
• Innovations in Teaching Abstract Algebra, ed. by Allen C. Hibbard and Ellen J. Maycock. Reviewed by Andrew B. Perry
  
• Innovations in Teaching Statistics, ed. by Joan Garfield. Reviewed by Liam O'Brien
  
• Innovative Approaches to Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Beyond Calculus, ed. by Richard J. Maher. Reviewed by Susan Slattery
  
• The Inquisitive Problem Solver, by Paul Vaderlind, Richard Guy and Loren Larson. Reviewed by Dick Fellow
  
• Instabilities, Chaos, and Turbulence: An Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems, by Paul Manneville. Briefly noted
  
• An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Integration Theory: A Second Course, by Martin Väth. Briefly noted.
  
• Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs), edited by David C. Arney, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• International Mathematical Olympiads: 1986-1999, by Marcin E. Kuczma. 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 Difference Equations, third edition, by Saber Elaydi. Briefly noted
  
• An Introduction to Game-Theoretic Modelling, by Michael Mesterton-Gibbons. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
  
• Introduction to Graph Theory, by Gary Chartrand and Ping Zhang. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference, by Steven J. Janke and Frederick C. Tinsley. Briefly noted
  
• Introduction to Mathematical Thinking: The Formation of Concepts in Modern Mathematics, by Friedrich Waismann. Reviewed by Marion Cohen
  
• Introduction to Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Modeling, by G. Latouche and V. Ramaswami. Briefly noted.
  
• Introduction to Maximum Principles and Symmetry in Elliptic Problems, by L. E. Fraenkel. Briefly noted.
  
• An Introduction to Noncommutative Differential Geometry and its Physical Applications, by J. Madore. Briefly noted.
  
• An Introduction to Number Theory, by Graham Everest and Thomas Ward. Reviewed by Rob Benedetto
  
• 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.
  
• An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic, by Ian Hacking. Reviewed by Ramachandran Bharath
  
• Introduction to the Calculus of Variations, by Bernard Dacorogna. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Introduction to Topology, by V. A. Vassiliev. Briefly noted.
  
• Inverse Problems: Activities for Undergraduates, by Charles W. Groetsch. Reviewed by Keith Brandt
  
• Inversion Theory and Conformal Mapping, by David E. Blair. Reviewed by Morteza Seddighin
  
• Invitation to the Mathematics of Fermat-Wiles, by Yves Hellegouarch. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• Irrational Numbers, by Ivan Niven. Briefly noted
  
• Irresistible Integrals: Symbolics, Analysis and Experiments in the Evaluation of Integrals, by George Boros and Victor H. Moll. Briefly noted
  
• Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy, ed. by Jed Z. Buchwald and I. Bernard Cohen. Briefly noted
  
• Iterative Methods for Optimization, by C. T. Kelley. Briefly noted.
  
• Jacques Hadamard, A Universal Mathematician, by Vladimir Maz'ya and Tatyana Shaposhnikova, Reviewed by George L. Ashline
  
• James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters, by Karen Hunger Parshall, reviewed by June Barrow-Green
  
• James Stirling's Methodus Differentialis: An Annotated Translation of Stirling's Text, by Ian Tweddle. Briefly noted
  
• János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space, by Jeremy J. Gray. Reviewed by Victor J. Katz
  
• John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician, by Noel Malcolm and Jacqueline Stedall. Reviewed by Rob Bradley
  
• John von Neumann, by Norman Macrae. Briefly noted.
  
• John von Neumann: Selected Letters, ed. by Miklós Rédei. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Julia: a life in mathematics, by Constance Reid, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
  
• The Jungles of Randomness, by Ivars Peterson, Reviewed by Dexter C. Whittinghill
  
• Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age, by Theodore M. Porter. Briefly noted
  
• Knots: Mathematics with a Twist, by Alexei Sossinsky, translated by Giselle Weiss. Reviewed by Philip D. Straffin
  
• Kvant Selecta: Combinatorics I, ed. by Serge Tabachnikov. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• The Kingdom of Infinite Number, by Bryan Bunch, Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• Kolmogorov in Perspective (History of Mathematics, volume 20). Briefly noted.
  
• The Lady Tasting Tea, by David Salsburg. Reviewed by Marc H. Mehlman
  
• Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940, ed. by I. Grattan-Guinness. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The Language of Mathematics, by Keith Devlin, Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
  
• Lattices and Ordered Algebraic Structures, by T.S. Blyth. Briefly noted
  
• Leading the Mathematical Sciences Department: A Resource for Chairs, ed. by Tina H. Straley, Marcia P. Sward, and Jon W. Scott. Reviewed by John D. Fulton
  
• Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Mathematics: Resources for Professional Development, by Matt DeLong and Dale Winter. Reviewed by George Ashline
  
• Lectures in Number Theory, by P. G. L. Dirichlet, with supplements by Richard Dedekind. Briefly noted.
  
• Lectures on Generating Functions, by S. K. Lando. Briefly noted
  
• Lectures on Ordinary Differential Equations, by Witold Hurewicz. Briefly noted.
  
• Lectures on the Icosahedron, by Felix Klein. Briefly noted
  
• The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel, ed. by Olav Arnfinn Laudal and Ragni Piene. Briefly noted
  
• Legacy of the Luoshu, by Frank J. Swetz. Reviewed by Phillip D. Straffin
  
• Lengths, Widths, Surfaces: a Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and its Kin, by Jens Høyrup. Reviewed by Eleanor Robson
  
• Lesson Study: A Japanese Approach to Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning, by Clea Fernandez and Makoto Yoshida. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
  
• Letters to a Young Mathematician, by Ian Stewart. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Life by the Numbers, by Keith Devlin, Reviewed by Bernadette Mullins
  
• Linear Algebra: Examples and Applications, by Alain M. Robert. Reviewed by Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
  
• Linear Algebra Gems, ed. by David Carlson, Charles R. Johnson, David C. Lay, and A. Duane Porter. Reviewed by Michele Intermont
  
• The Little Book of Time, by Klaus Mainzer. Briefly noted
  
• Logic as Algebra, by Paul Halmos and Steven Givant, Reviewed by Mark Johnson
  
• Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You, by Deborah J. Bennett. Reviewed by Robert S. Wolf
  
• A Long Way From Euclid, by Constance Reid. Reviewed by Sandra Kingan
  
• M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry, by Doris Schattschneider. Reviewed by Gerald L. Alexanderson
  
• The Magical Maze: Seeing the World through Mathematical Eyes, by Ian Stewart, Reviewed by Sean Bradley
  
• Man Overboard: Confessions of a Novice Math Teacher in the Bronx, by Ric Klass. Reviewed by Rebecca Black
  
• The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment, by Mary Terrall. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, by Paul Hoffman, Reviewed by Keith Devlin
  
• Managing Mathematical Projects — with Success!, by P. P. G. Dyke. Reviewed by Brigitte Servatius
  
• Manifold: Time, by Stephen Baxter. Briefly noted.
  
• A Manual of Greek Mathematics, by Sir Thomas L. Heath. Briefly noted
  
• Martingale Methods in Financial Modeling, second edition, by Marek Musiela and Marek Rutkowski. Briefly noted
  
• MASS Selecta: Teaching and Learning Advanced Mathematics, ed. by Svetlana Katok, Alexei Sossinsky, and Serge Tabachnikov. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• Math & Bio 2010: Linking Undergraduate Disciplines, ed. by Lynn Arthur Steen. Reviewed by Judy Holdener
  
• The Math Behind the Music, by Leon Harkleroad. Reviewed by Sarah Boslaugh
  
• The Math Chat Book, by Frank Morgan, Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, by Keith Devlin. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs), by Keith Devlin. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• The Math Life, a film by Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake, and Dan Rockmore. Reviewed by Henry Cohn
  
• Math Talks for Undergraduates, by Serge Lang. Reviewed by Richard K. Guy
  
• Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, by William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Gouvêa. Reviewed by Victor J. Katz
  
• Math Trek: Adventures in the MathZone, by Ivars Peterson and Nancy Henderson, Reviewed by Mary Shepherd
  
• Mathematical Adventures for Students and Amateurs, ed. by David F. Hayes and Tatiana Shubin. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Mathematical Biology I: An Introduction, by J. D. Murray. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• A Mathematical Bridge: An Intuitive Journey in Higher Mathematics, by Stephen Fletcher Hewson. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• The Mathematical Century: The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years, by Piergiorgio Odifreddi. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
  
• Mathematical Chestnuts from Around the World, by Ross Honsberger. Briefly noted.
  
• Mathematical Circles, by Howard Eves. Six volumes in three. Briefly noted
  
• Mathematical Connections, by Al Cuoco. Reviewed by Stephen B. Maurer
  
• Mathematical Constants, by Stephen R. Finch. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Mathematical Conversations, ed. by Robin Wilson and Jeremy Gray. Reviewed by Branislav Kisacanin
  
• Mathematical Encounters of the 2nd Kind, by Philip J. Davis, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• The Mathematical Education of Teachers, ed. by Cathy Kessel, Judith Epstein and Michael Keynes. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
  
• Mathematical Evolutions, ed. by Abe Shenitzer and John Stilwell. Reviewed by David Graves
  
• Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers, by Reinhard Laubenbacher and David Pengelley, Reviewed by Daniel E. Otero
  
• The Mathematical Explorer, by Stan Wagon and Wolfram Research. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
  
• Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam, by Edward J. Barbeau. Briefly noted.
  
• A Mathematical Gift I: The interplay between topology, functions, geometry, and algebra, by Kenji Ueno, Koji Shiga and Shigeyuki Morita. Reviewed by Hortensia Soto-Johnson
  
• Mathematical Miniatures, by Svetoslav Savchev and Titu Andreescu. Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
  
• 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 Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of All Time, by John L. Casti. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers, by Calvin C. Clawson. Briefly noted.
  
• Mathematical Olympiad Challenges, by Titu Andreescu and Razvan Gelca. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
  
• The Mathematical Olympiad Handbook, by A. Gardiner, Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• Mathematical Olympiad Treasures, by Titu Andreescu and Bogdan Enescu. Briefly noted
  
• Mathematical Olympiads 1998-1999, by Titu Andreescu and Zuming Feng. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• Mathematical Olympiads: Problems and Solutions From Around the World, 1999-2000, edited by Titu Andreescu and Zuming Feng. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• Mathematical Olympiads: Problems and Solutions from Around the World, 2000-2001, by Titu Andreescu, Zuming Feng and George Lee Jr. Briefly noted
  
• Mathematical Perspectives on Theoretical Physics, by Nirmala Prakash. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Mathematical Problems and Proofs: Combinatorics, Number Theory, and Geometry, by Branislav Kisacanin. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• Mathematical Puzzle Tales, by Martin Gardner. Reviewed by Antonella Cupillari
  
• Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection, by Peter Winkler. Reviewed by James Tanton
  
• Mathematical Reminiscences, by Howard Eves. Reviewed by Michael Berg.
  
• Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing the Secrets of Numbers, by Calvin C. Clawson. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes, by S. Chandrasekhar. Briefly noted.
  
• Mathematical Treks: From Surreal Numbers to Magic Circles, by Ivars Peterson. Reviewed by Richard K. Guy
  
• Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows, by Peter Hilton, Derek Holton and Jean Pedersen. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
  
• Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations, ed. by C. C. Gaither and A. E. Cavazos-Gaither. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans, by Ken Ross. Reviewed by Steve Morics
  
• A Mathematician Grappling with His Century, by Laurent Schwartz. Reviewed by Robert Dobrow
  
• The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It Was the Audacity of My Thinking, by Arild Stubhaug. Reviewed by Jeremy Gray
  
• A Mathematician's Survival Guide: Graduate School and Early Career Development, by Stephen G. Krantz. Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
  
• Mathematicians under the Nazis, by Sanford L.Segal. Reviewed by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
  
• Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction, by Timothy Gowers. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics, ed. by Helaine Selin and Ubiratan D'Ambrosio. Briefly noted.
  
• 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 Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy, prepared by The National Council on Education and the Disciplines, Lynn Arthur Steen, Executive Editor. Reviewed by Steven R. Dunbar
  
• Mathematics and Music: A Diderot Mathematical Forum, edited by Gérard Assayag, Hans Georg Feichtinger, and José Francisco Rodrigues. Reviewed by Leon Harkleroad
  
• Mathematics and Social Utopias in France: Olinde Rodrigues and His Times, ed. by Simon Altmann and Eduardo L. Ortiz. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
  
• Mathematics and the Divine, ed. by T. Koetsier and L. Bergmans. Reviewed by Calvin Jongsma
  
• Mathematics, Art, Technology and Cinema, ed. by Michele Emmer and Mirella Manaresi. Reviewed by David Acheson
  
• Mathematics at Work, by Holbrook L. Horton, edited by Henry H. Ryffel, Edward E. Messal, and Robert E. Green. Briefly noted.
  
• Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century, by Jonathan Borwein and David Bailey. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Mathematics Education Research: A Guide for the Research Mathematician, by Curtis McKnight, Andy Magid, Teri J. Murphy and Michelynn McKnight. Reviewed by Mary Shepherd
  
• Mathematics Elsewhere, by Marcia Ascher. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• Mathematics Experiments, by Shangzhi Li, Falai Chen, Yaohua Wu, and Yunhua Zhang. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Mathematics for Human Survival, by Patricia Clark Kenschaft. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Mathematics for the Imagination, by Peter M. Higgins. Reviewed by Steven Morics
  
• Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, ed. by V. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Mathematics in a Postmodern Age: A Christian Perspective, ed. by Russell W. Howell and W. James Bradley. Reviewed by Bonnie Gold
  
• 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 Oz, by Clifford A. Pickover. Reviewed by Charles Ashbacher
  
• The Mathematics of Plato's Academy, by David Fowler, Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The Mathematics of Soap Films: Explorations with Maple¸, by John Oprea. Reviewed by Helen Moore
  
• Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800–1945, ed. by Karen Hunger Parshall and Adrian C. Rice. Reviewed by Stacy Langton
  
• Mathematics Unlimited--2001 and Beyond, edited by Björn Engquist and Wilfried Schmid. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb, by Mary Stopes-Roe. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Mathematics Without Borders: A History Of The International Mathematical Union, by Olli Lehto, Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• Maths: A Student's Survival Guide, by Jenny Olive, Reviewed by Teri J. Murphy
  
• Maths: a Student's Survival Guide 2nd. edition, by Jenny Olive. Briefly noted
  
• Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra, by Carl D. Meyer. Reviewed by Joel Foisy
  
• Matrix Groups: An Introduction to Lie Group Theory, by Andrew Baker. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• 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
  
• The Measure of the World, by Denis Guedj. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Reviewed by Steven Morics
  
• Measuring the Universe, by Kitty Ferguson. Briefly noted.
  
• Meta Math! The Search for Omega, by Gregory Chaitin. Reviewed by Marion Cohen
  
• Miles of Tiles, by Charles Radin, Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• The Millennium Problems, by Keith Devlin. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Misteaks ... and how to find them before the teacher does... , by Barry Cipra. Reviewed by Antonella Cupillari
  
• Mixed Hodge Structures and Singularities, by Valentine S. Kulikov. Briefly noted.
  
• Modern Advanced Mathematics for Engineers, by Vladimir V. Mitin, Dmitri A. Romanov, and Michael P. Polis. Briefly noted.
  
• Modern Mathematics in the Light of the Fields Medals, by Michael Monastyrsky, Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Modular Forms and Galois Cohomology, by Haruzo Hida. Briefly noted.
  
• The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies, by Donald C. Benson, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• More Games of No Chance, ed. by Richard J. Nowakowsky. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Most Honorable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes, by Andrew I. Dale. 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
  
• Multiplicities and Chern Classes in Local Algebra, by Paul C. Roberts. Briefly noted.
  
• The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics, by Marcus du Sautoy. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections, ed. by Raymond G. Ayoub. Reviewed by Annalisa Crannell
  
• My Brain is Open, by Bruce Schechter, Reviewed by Keith Devlin
  
• My Numbers, My Friends: Popular Lectures on Number Theory, by Paulo Ribenboim. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
  
• The Mystery of Numbers, by Annemarie Schimmel, Reviewed by Julian F. Fleron
  
• Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of L.E.J. Brouwer, Volume 1, by Dirk van Dalen, Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Life of L. E. J. Brouwer, Vol. 2: Hope and Disillusion, by Dirk van Dalen. Reviewed by Bonnie Shulman
  
• A Natural Introduction to Probability Theory, by Ronald Meester. Reviewed by Raymond N. Greenwell
  
• 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
  
• New Mexico Contest Problem Book, by Liong-Shin Hahn. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• The New Shepherd's Lamp, by Jean-Pierre Bourgignon, François Tisseyre, Claire Weingarten. Briefly noted.
  
• New Visual Perspectives on Fibonacci Numbers, by Krassimir Atanassova, Vassia Atanassova, Anthony Shannon and John Turner. Briefly noted
  
• Niels Henrik Abel and his Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar, by Arild Stubhaug. Reviewed by Jeremy J. Gray
  
• Non-Euclidean Geometry, by H. S. M. Coxeter. Reviewed by Robert Stolz
  
• Non-Euclidean Geometry in the Theory of Automorphic Functions, by Jacques Hadamard, edited by Jeremy J. Gray and Abe Shenitzer. Briefly noted.
  
• Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, Reviewed by Libby Krussel
  
• The Nothing That Is, by Robert Kaplan, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
  
• The Number π, by Pierre Eymard and Jean-Pierre Lafon. Reviewed by Henry Ricardo
  
• Number: from Ahmes to Cantor, by Midhat Gazalé. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
  
• Numbers, Groups & Codes, Second Edition, by J. F. Humphreys and M. Y. Prest. Reviewed by Thomas R. Berger
  
• Numerology, or What Pythagoras Wrought, by Underwood Dudley, Reviewed by Walter Sizer
  
• On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Horton Conway and Derek A. Smith. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• On Numbers and Games, by John Conway. Second Edition. Briefly noted.
  
• The One True Platonic Heaven: a Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge, by John L. Casti. Reviewed by Jeremy Case
  
• 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
  
• Oval Track and other Permutation Puzzles, and just enough group theory to solve them, by John O. Kiltinen. Reviewed by Ruth I. Berger
  
• Over and Over Again, by Gengzhe Chang and Thomas W. Sederberg, Reviewed Ed Sandifer
  
• Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences, ed. by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson . Reviewed by Eisso Atzema
  
• A Panorama of Harmonic Analysis, by Steven G. Krantz. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry, by Marcel Berger. Reviewed by Tan Zhang
  
• Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity, by S. Cuomo. Briefly noted.
  
• The Parrot's Theorem: A Novel, by Denis Guedj. Reviewed by Gerald L. Alexanderson
  
• Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Methods, by Mark S. Gockenbach. Reviewed by Maeve L. McCarthy
  
• Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle: The story of a mathematical idea, by A. W. F. Edwards. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
  
• A Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting Strategies, by Titu Andreescu and Zuming Feng. Briefly noted
  
• Paul Dirac: the man and his work, edited by Peter Goddard, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
  
• The Pea and the Sun, by Leonard M. Wapner. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
  
• Penrose Tiles To Trapdoor Ciphers, by Martin Gardner, Reviewed by Richard Vinson
  
• The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with an edition of Ralph Lever and William Fulke, "The Most Noble, Auncient, and Learned Playe" (1563), by Ann E. Moyer. Briefly noted
  
• Philosophies of Mathematics, by Alexander George and Daniel J. Velleman. Reviewed by Bonnie Gold
  
• π: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number, by Alfred A. Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann. Reviewed by David A. Huckaby
  
• Pi: A Source Book, Third Edition, ed. by Lennart Berggren, Jonathan Borwein, and Peter Borwein. Briefly noted
  
• Pi Unleashed, by by Jörg Arndt and Christoph Haenel. Reviewed by Carl D. Mueller
  
• Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life In Exact Science, by Charles Coulston Gillispie, Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer, by Charles W. Curtis, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
  
• Plane Trigonometry for the Use of Colleges and Schools, With Numerous Examples, by Isaac Todhunter. Briefly noted.
  
• The Pleasures of Counting, by T.W. KÀrner, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
  
• Pluckings from the Tree of Smarandache Sequences and Functions, by Charles Ashbacher. Briefly Noted.
  
• Polyhedra, by Peter R. Cromwell, Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Portraits of the Earth: A Mathematician Looks at Maps, by Timothy G. Feeman. Reviewed by Robert W. Vallin
  
• Power Play, by Ed Barbeau, Reviewed by David Graves
  
• Practical Analysis in One Variable, by Donald Estep. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• A Practical Guide to Cooperative Learning in Collegiate Mathematics, by Nancy L. Hagelgans et. al, Reviewed by Thomas R. Berger
  
• A Prime for the Millennium, by John B. Cosgrave. Briefly Noted.
  
• The Prime Number Theorem, by G. J. O. Jameson. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
  
• The Prime Numbers and their Distribution, by Gérald Tenenbaum and Michel Mendès-France. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
  
• A Primer of Abstract Mathematics, by Robert Ash, Reviewed by Steven Morics
  
• A Primer of Analytic Number Theory: From Pythagoras to Riemann, by Jeffrey Stopple. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
  
• Problems in Algebraic Number Theory, Second Editon, by Jody Esmonde and M. Ram Murty. Briefly noted.
• Problems in Mathematical Analysis I, by W. J. Kaczor and M. T. Nowak. Briefly noted.
  
• Problems in Mathematical Analysis II: Continuity and Differentiation, by W. J. Kaczor and M. T. Nowak. Reviewed by Morteza Seddighin
  
• Problems in Probability, by T. M. Mills. Briefly noted.
  
• Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics, by Thomas Hull. Reviewed by Steven Frankel
  
• Proof, Logic, and Conjecture: The Mathematician's Toolbox, by Robert S. Wolf, Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
  
• Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture, by David M. Bressoud. Reviewed by Michele Intermont
  
• Proofs and Fundamentals: A First Course in Abstract Mathematics, by Ethan D. Bloch. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• Proofs from THE BOOK, by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler, reviewed by Mary Shepherd
  
• Proofs that Really Count, by Arthur T. Benjamin and Jennifer J. Quinn. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Proofs Without Words II: More Exercises in Visual Thinking, by Roger B. Nelsen. Reviewed by Robert C. Stolz
  
• The Provenance of Pure Reason: Essays in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Its History, by William Tait. Reviewed by Bonnie Gold
  
• Pythagorean Triangles, by Wacław Sierpiński. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• The Quest for Unity, by Éttienne Klein and Marc Lachièze-Rey. Briefly noted.
  
• Ramsey Theory on the Integers, by Bruce M. Landman and Aaron Robertson. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• The Random Walks of George Pólya, by Gerald L. Alexanderson. Reviewed by Manav Das
  
• Randomness,by Deborah J. Bennett, Reviewed by Randall J. Swift
  
• Reading the Principia, by NiccolÙ Guicciardini, Reviewed by Jeremy Gray
  
• Reading, Writing, and Proving: A Closer Look at Mathematics, by Ulrich Daepp and Pamela Gorkin. Reviewed by Maria Fung
  
• Readings in Cooperative Learning for Undergraduate Mathematics, Edited by E. Dubinsky, D. Mathews and B. E Reynolds, Reviewed by Agnes Tuska
  
• Real Analysis - A Historical Approach, by Saul Stahl, Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
  
• Real Infinite Series, by Daniel D. Bonar and Michael J. Khoury. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
  
• Real-Variable Methods in Harmonic Analysis, by Alberto Torchinsky. Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
  
• Reasoning with the Infinite, by Michel Blay, Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction, by Henk J. M. Bos. Briefly noted.
  
• Reciprocity Laws : From Euler to Eisenstein, by Franz Lemmermeyer. Briefly noted.
  
• Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann, by Ioan James. Reviewed by Philip D. Straffin
  
• Representation Theory of Finite Reductive Groups, by Marc Cabanes and Michel Enguehard. Briefly noted
  
• Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education V, ed. by Annie Selden, Ed Dubinsky, Guershon Harel, and Fernando Hitt. Reviewed by T. J. Murphy
  
• Resources for Teaching Linear Algebra, edited by David Carlson et. al, Reviewed by Rebecca Berg
  
• Resources for the Study of Real Analysis, by Robert L. Brabenec. Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
  
• Revolutions in Differential Equations, ed. by Michael J. Kallaher, Reviewed by Jan E. Holly
  
• The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem of Mathematics, by Karl Sabbagh. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
  
• The Riemann Zeta-Function, by Aleksandar Ivic. Briefly noted
  
• The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, by Roger Penrose. Reviewed by David M. Bressoud
  
• Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars: Documents and Studies for the Social History of Mathematics in the 20th Century, by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze. Reviewed by Karen Hunger Parshall
  
• Ruler and the Round: Classic Problems in Geometric Constructions, by Nicholas D. Kazarinoff. Reviewed by P. N. Ruane
  
• The Saga of Mathematics, by Martin Lewinter and William Widulski. Reviewed by Ioana Mihaila
  
• The Sand Reckoner, by Gillian Bradshaw. Reviewed by Reviel Netz.
  
• Saunders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography, by Saunders Mac Lane. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge Through Cultures and Time, by Scott L. Montgomery. Reviewed by William R. Everdell
  
• The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal, by James Franklin. Briefly noted.
  
• The Scottish Café, by Susan H. Case. Briefly noted
  
• The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940: Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel, by I. Grattan-Guinness. Reviewed by Marvin Schaefer
  
• The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think, by George G. Szpiro. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• Selected Papers of Alan Hoffman with Commentary, edited by Charles A. Micchelli. Briefly noted
  
• Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics, by Donald E. Knuth. Briefly noted
  
• Selecting and Ordering Populations, by Jean Dickinson Gibbons, Ingram Olkin, and Milton Sobel. Briefly noted.
  
• Sets for Mathematics, by F. William Lawvere and Robert Rosebrugh, Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• The Shape of Space, by Jeffrey R. Weeks. Reviewed by Colin Adams
  
• The Shape of the Great Pyramid, by Roger Herz-Fischler. Reviewed by Underwood Dudley
  
• The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A study in cognitive history, by Reviel Netz, Reviewed by Christian Marinus Taisbak
  
• She Does Math!, edited by Marla Parker, Reviewed by Lynette I. Millett
  
• Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History, ed. by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, and Robin Wilson. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Should We Risk It?, by Daniel M. Kammen and David M. Hassenzahl, Reviewed by Dexter C. Whittinghill
  
• Sir William Rowan Hamilton, by Thomas L. Hankins. Briefly noted
  
• Six Themes on Variation, ed. by Robert Hardt. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• A Smoother Pebble: Mathematical Explorations, by Donald C. Benson. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation, by Alan D. Taylor. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• Solve This: Math Activities for Students and Clubs, by James Tanton. Reviewed by Herbert E. Kasube
  
• Sophie's Diary: A Historical Fiction, by Dora Musielak. Reviewed by Judy Holdener
  
• Special Relativity, by N. M. J. Woodhouse. Briefly noted
  
• The Square Root of 2: A Dialogue Concerning a Number and a Sequence, by David Flannery. Reviewed by Doug Ensley and John Ensley
  
• Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis, by Douglas M. Jesseph. Reviewed by David Graves
  
• Stable and Random Motion in Dynamical Systems, by Jürgen Moser. Briefly noted.
  
• Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers, by Dan Rockmore. Reviewed by S. W. Graham
  
• Stamping Through Mathematics, by Robin Wilson. Reviewed by Victor Katz.
  
• Starting Our Careers, edited by Curtis D. Bennett and Annalisa Crannell, Reviewed by George L. Ashline
  
• A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy, by Joe Albree, David C. Arney, and V. Frederick Rickey. Briefly noted.
  
• Statistical Models: Theory and Practice, by David Freedman. Reviewed by Ita Cirovic Donev
  
• Statisticians of the Centuries, edited by C.C. Heyde and E. Seneta. Reviewed by Andrew Leahy
  
• Statistics in Society, edited by Daniel Dorling and Stephen Simpson, Reviewed by Gudmund R. Iversen
  
• Stephen Smale: The Mathematician Who Broke the Dimension Barrier, by Steve Batterson. Reviewed by Shirley B. Gray
  
• Stochastic Processes, by Emauel Parzen. Briefly noted.
  
• Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and other Mathematical Explorations, by Keith Ball. Reviewed by Stacy G. Langton
  
• Strength in Numbers, by Sherman Stein, Reviewed by Keith Devlin
  
• The Structural Theory of Probability: New Ideas from Computer Science on the Ancient Problem of Probability Interpretation, by Paolo Rocchi. Briefly noted
  
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom. Briefly noted.
  
• The Structure of Spherical Buildings, by Richard M. Weiss. Briefly noted
  
• Student Assessment in Calculus, edited by Alan Schoenfeld, Reviewed by Nkechi Madonna Agwu
  
• Study the Masters: The Abel-Fauvel Conference, ed. by Otto B. Bekken and Reidar Mosvold. Reviewed by Victor J. Katz
  
• Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics, ed. by Lynn Arthur Steen. Reviewed by Dennis Lomas
  
• Surfing Through Hyperspace, by Clifford A. Pickover, Reviewed by Michele Intermont
  
• Surveys in Number Theory: Papers from The Millennial Conference on Number Theory, ed. by M. A. Bennett, B. C. Berndt, N. Boston, H. G. Diamond, A. J. Hildebrand, and W. Philipp. Briefly noted.
  
• Symmetry, by Hans Walser. Reviewed by Michele Intermont.
  
• Symmetry and the Monster: One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics, by Mark Ronan. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, by Steven Strogatz. Reviewed by Philip J. Davis
  
• Taking Chances: Winning with Probability, by John Haigh. Reviewed by Randall J. Swift
  
• A Taste of Jordan Algebras, by Kevin McCrimmon. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• A Taste of Topology, by Volker Runde. Briefly noted
  
• Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics, by Rheta Rubenstein, Charlene Beckmann, and Denisse Thompson. Reviewed by George Ashline
  
• The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at University Level: An ICMI Study, ed. by Derek Holton. Reviewed by Teri J. Murphy
  
• Teaching First: A Guide for New Mathematicians, by Thomas W. Rishel. Reviewed by Solomon Friedberg
  
• The Teaching Gap, by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert, Reviewed by Rick Seaman
  
• Teaching Mathematics in Colleges and Universities: Case Studies for Today's Classroom, by Solomon Friedberg et al. Reviewed by Eileen Shugart
  
• Teaching Mathematics Vocabulary in Context: Windows, Doors, and Secret Passageways, by Miki Murray. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
  
• Teaching Statistics: Resources for Undergraduate Instructors, ed. by Thomas Moore. Reviewed by Richard L. Scheaffer
  
• Teaching Statistics Using Baseball, by Jim Albert. Reviewed by Steven Morics
  
• Ten Mathematical Acrostics For People Who Are Amused by Words, by Tom M. Apostol. Briefly noted.
  
• The Theory of Finite Groups: An Introduction, by Hans Kurzweil and Bernd Stellmacher. Briefly noted

• Theory of Probability, by Sir Harold Jeffreys. Briefly noted.
  
• Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald E. Knuth. (CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 136.) Briefly noted.
  
• Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science, ed. by Robert Fox. Briefly noted.
  
• Topics in Intersection Graph Theory, by Terry A. McKee and F. R. McMorris. Briefly noted.
  
• Topics in Number Theory, by Paul Erdös and János Surányi. Reviewed by Donald L. Vestal
  
• A Topological Aperitif, by Stephen Huggett and David Jordan. Reviewed by Michael Berg
  
• Touching Soap Films: An Introduction to Minimal Surfaces, by A. Arnez, K. Polthier, M. Steffens, and C. Teitzel (Springer VideoMATH). Reviewed by Mark McKibben
  
• A Tour of the Calculus, by David Berlinski, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
  
• A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, volumes one and two, by James Clerk Maxwell. Briefly noted.
  
• Trigonometric Delights, by Eli Maor, Reviewed by Sean Bradley
  
• The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life, by I. B. Cohen. Reviewed by Judith V. Grabiner
  
• Turing (A Novel about Computation), by Christos H. Papadimitriou. Reviewed by Darren Glass
  
• The Two-Body Problem: Dual-Career-Couple Hiring Practices in Higher Education, by Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Susan B. Twombly, and Suzanne Rice. Reviewed by Karen Saxe
  
• Topology Now!, by Robert Messer and Philip Straffin. Reviewed by David Richeson
  
• Two Millennia of Mathematics: From Archimedes to Gauss, by George M. Phillips. Reviewed by Mary Shepherd.
• Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, by Apostolos Doxiadis, Reviewed by Keith Devlin
  
• Understanding Analysis, by Stephen D. Abbott. Reviewed by Steve Kennedy
  
• Understanding Our Quantitative World, by Janet Andersen and Todd Swanson. Reviewed by William J. Satzer
  
• The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes, by David Darling. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
  
• The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, by Martin Davis. Reviewed by Mark Johnson
  
• The Universe and the Teacup, by K. C. Cole, Reviewed by William Berlinghoff
  
• USA and International Mathematical Olympiads 2000. edited by Titu Andreescu and Zuming Feng. Briefly noted.
  
• USA and International Mathematical Olympiads 2001, ed. by Titu Andreescu and Zuming Feng. Briefly noted.
  
• Using History to Teach Mathematics: An International Perspective, ed. by Victor Katz. Reviewed by Ed Sandifer
  
• Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem: Lectures on Topological Methods in Combinatorics and Geometry, by Jiří Matoušek. Reviewed by Mihaela Poplicher
  
• Vector Analysis, by Klaus Jänich. Briefly noted.
  
• VideoMath Festival at ICM '98, edited by H.-C. Hege and K. Polthier. Briefly noted.
  
• Vision in Elementary Mathematics, by W. W. Sawyer. Reviewed by Rick Seaman
  
• The Way It Was: Mathematics from the Early Years of the Bulletin, ed. by Donald G. Saari. Reviewed by Kenneth A. Ross
  
• What is Mathematics, Really?, by Reuben Hersh, Reviewed by Fernando Gouvêa
  
• What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, 1998-1999, by Barry Cipra. Briefly noted.
  
• What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 5, by Barry Cipra. Reviewed by David P. Roberts
  
• When Computers Were Human, by David Grier. Reviewed by Amy Shell-Gellasch
  
• 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
  
• Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being, by George Lakoff and Rafael E. Núñez. Reviewed by Bonnie Gold
  
• Which Door Has the Cadillac: Adventures of a Real Life Mathematician, by Andrew Vazsonyi. Reviewed by Nancy C. Weida
  
• Why Knot? An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots, by Colin Adams. Reviewed by Philip D. Straffin
  
• The Wild Numbers, by Philibert Schogt. Reviewed by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
  
• The Wild World of 4-Manifolds, by Alexandru Scorpan. Briefly noted
  
• The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985-2000: Problems, Solutions and Commentary, by Kiran S. Kedlaya, Bjorn Poonen and Ravi Vakil. Briefly noted
  
• Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy. Volume 1, Second Edition. Briefly noted.
  
• Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, by Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy. Volume 2, Second Edition. Briefly noted
  
• Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, volume 3, by Elwyn W. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy. Briefly noted
  
• Women and Mathematics: Scaling the Heights, ed. by Deborah Nolan, Reviewed by Virginia Knight
  
• Women, Art, and Geometry in Southern Africa, by Paulus Gerdes, Reviewed by Walter S. Sizer
  
• Women in Mathematics: the Addition of Difference, by Claudia Henrion, Reviewed by Mary Shepherd
  
• Working Analysis, by Jeffery Cooper. Reviewed by Warren Johnson
  
• The Works of Archimedes, ed. by T. L. Heath. Briefly noted.
  
• Write Your Own Proofs: In Set Theory and Discrete Mathematics, by Amy Babich and Laura Person. Reviewed by James Hamblin
  
• Writing in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, by John Meier and Tom Rishel, Reviewed by Michele Intermont
  
• Writing Projects for Mathematics Courses: Crushed Clowns, Cars, and Coffee to Go, by Annalisa Crannell, Gavin LaRose, Thomas Ratliff, and Elyn Rykken. Reviewed by Susan Palmer Slattery
  
• Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development, edited by Joseph W. Dauben and Christoph J. Scriba on behalf of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics. Briefly noted
  
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife, Reviewed by Andrew Leahy