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Volume 85 - Issue 504 - November 2001

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MathsDisc CD, Individual licence £58.75, School licence from £94. 2001. (TRS Publishing).

Imaginary Numbers: an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings, edited by William Frucht. Pp. 327. £12.50. 2000. ISBN 0 471 39341 X (John Wiley & Sons).

Calls from the past, Zoltan Paul Dienes. Pp. 170 £10.99. 2000. ISBN 0 75411 3477 (Minerva Press).

Pappus of Alexandria and mathematics of late antiquity, by Serafino Cuomo. Pp. 234. £40. 2000. ISBN 0 521 64211 6 (Cambridge University Press).

The planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world (Millennium edn), by A. K. Dewdney. Pp. 277. £15.00. 2001. ISBN 0 387 98916 1 (Copernicus Books).

The random walks of George Pólya, by Gerald Alexanderson. Pp. 315. £17.95. 2000. ISBN 0 883 85528 3 (Mathematical Association of America, distributed by Cambridge University Press).

Lectures on mathematics, by Felix Klein. Pp. 109. £11.50. 2001. ISBN 0 8218 2733 2 (AMS Chelsea, distributed by Oxford University Press).

Essays on the future: in honor of Nick Metropolis, edited by Siegfried S. Hecker and Gian-Carlo Rota. Pp. 296. SFr 108. 2000. ISBN 0 8176 3856 3 (Birkhäuser).

The genius of science: a portrait gallery of twentieth-century physicists, by Abraham Pais. Pp. 356. $30. 2000. ISBN 0 19 850614 7 (Oxford University Press).

A calculating people: the spread of numeracy in early America, by Patricia Cline Cohen. Pp. 271. £10.99. 1999. ISBN 0 415 92578 9 (Routledge).

Einstein: the formative years, 1879-1909, edited by Don Howard and John Stachel. Einstein Studies 8. Pp. 258. SFr 108. 2000. ISBN 0 8176 4030 4 (Birkhäuser).

My numbers, my friends. Popular lectures on number theory, by Paulo Ribenboim. Pp. 375. £18.50. 2000. ISBN 0 387 98911 0 (Springer- Verlag).

Ramanujan: Twelve lectures on subjects suggested by his life and work, by G. H. Hardy. Pp. 254. £20. 1999. ISBN 0 8218 2023 0 (AMS Chelsea, distributed by Oxford University Press).

Geometry, by Roger Fenn. Pp. 328. £15.95. 2001. ISBN 1 85233 58 9 (Springer-Verlag).

Pi-unleashed, by Jörg Arndt and Christoph Haenel, (translated from the German by Catriona and David Lischka). Pp. 270, with CD-ROM. £25.50. 2001. ISBN 3 540 66572 2 (Springer-Verlag).

Geometric design of linkages, J. Michael McCarthy. Pp. 320. £51.50. 2000. ISBN 0 387 98983 8 (Springer-Verlag, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics Volume 11)

Finite group theory (2nd edn), by Michael Aschbacher. Pp. 304. £52.50 (paperback). 2000. ISBN 0 521 78675 4 (Cambridge University Press).

Numbers and functions: steps into analysis, by R. P. Burn. Pp. 356. £19.95. 2000. ISBN 0 521 78836 6 (Cambridge University Press).

Real analysis, by John Howie. Pp. 276. £15.95. 2001. ISBN 185233 314 6 (Springer-Verlag).

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