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July 31, 2000: Nominations for the Complexity and Information, by Jacques Hadamard, A Universal Monroe Martin Prize. Contact J. A. J. F. Traub and Arthur G. Werschulz. Mathematician, by Vladimir Mazy´a Yorke, Director, Institute for Physical Cambridge University Press, December and Tatyana Shaposhnikova. Sciences and Technology, University of 1998. ISBN 0-52148-005-1 (hardcover), AMS/London Mathematical Society, Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. 0-521-48506-1 (paperback). January 1998. ISBN 0-821-80841-9. August 15, 2000: Third competi- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephen- James Joseph Sylvester: Life tion for NRC Research Associateships. son. Avon Books, May 1999. ISBN 0- and Work in Letters, by Karen Hunger See http://www. national- 380-97346-4. (Reviewed December Parshall. Oxford University Press, academies.org/rap, or contact the 1999.) October 1998. ISBN 0-198-50391-1. National Research Council, Associ- The Eightfold Way: The Beauty of John von Neumann: The Scientific ateship Programs (TJ 2114/D3), 2101 Klein’s Quartic Curve, edited by Silvio Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Constitution Avenue, NW, Washing- Levy. Cambridge University Press, Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear ton, DC 20418; telephone: 202-334- March 1999. ISBN 0-521-66066-1. Deterrence, and Much More, by 2760; fax: 202-334-2759; e-mail: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Norman Macrae. AMS, October 1999. [email protected]. Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for ISBN 0-821-82064-8. September 1, 2000: Applications the Ultimate Theory, by Brian Greene. The Kingdom of Infinite Number: for the AWM 2001 Workshop for W. W. Norton & Company, February A Field Guide, by Bryan Bunch. W. H. Women Graduate Students and Post- 1999. ISBN 0-393-04688-5. Freeman, January 2000. ISBN 0-716- docs. See “Mathematics Opportuni- Euclid: The Creation of Mathematics, 73388-9. ties” in this issue. by Benno Artmann. Springer-Verlag, The Mathemagician and the Pied October 16, 2000: Applications for June 1999. ISBN 0-387-98423-2. Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoc- Fermat’s Last Theorem for Amateurs, Martin Gardner, edited by Elwyn toral Research Fellowships. See “Math- by Paulo Ribenboim. Springer-Verlag, Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers. A K ematics Opportunities” in this issue. February 1999. ISBN 0-387-98508-5. Peters, March 1999. ISBN 1-568- (Reviewed April 1999.) 81075-X. Book List Five More Golden Rules: Knots, A Mathematical Mystery Tour: The Book List highlights books that Codes, Chaos and Other Great Theories Discovering the Truth and Beauty of have mathematical themes and hold of 20th Century Mathematics, by John the Cosmos, by A. K. Dewdney. John appeal for a wide audience, including L. Casti. John Wiley & Sons, February Wiley & Sons, March 1999. ISBN 0-471- mathematicians, students, and a sig- 2000. ISBN 0-471-32233-4. 23847-3. (Reviewed February 2000.) nificant portion of the general public. Fragile Dominion: Complexity and Mathematical Sorcery: Revealing When a book has been reviewed in the the Commons, by Simon Levin. Perseus the Secrets of Numbers, by Calvin C. Notices, a reference is given to the Books, June 1999. ISBN 0-738-20111- Clawson. Plenum Press, May 1999. review. Generally the list will contain 1. (Reviewed in this issue.) ISBN 0-306-46003-3. only books published within the last A History of the Circle: Mathemati- Mathematics and Mathematicians: two years, though exceptions may be cal Reasoning and the Physical Universe, Mathematics in Sweden before 1950, made in cases where current events by Ernest Zebrowski Jr. Rutgers by Lars Gårding. AMS/London (e.g., the death of a prominent math- University Press, August 1999. ISBN Mathematical Society, 1998. ISBN ematician, coverage of a certain piece 0-813-52677-9. 0-821-80612-2. of mathematics in the news) warrant Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology The Moment of Proof: Mathematical drawing readers’ attention to older of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Epiphanies, by Donald C. Benson. books. Suggestions for books to include Diversions, Poems, and Musings, edited Oxford University Press, March 1999. on the list may be sent to the manag- by William Frucht. John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-195-11721-2. ing editor, e-mail: [email protected]. October 1999. ISBN 0-471-33244-5. Mystic, Geometer, and Intuitionist: The Importance of Being Fuzzy and The Life of L. E. J. Brouwer, by Dirk Van Other Insights from the Border Dalen. Oxford University Press, April The Applicability of Mathematics as Between Math and Computers, by 1999. ISBN 0-198-50297-4. a Philosophical Problem, by Mark Arturo Sangalli. Princeton University The Nature of Mathematical Mod- Steiner. Harvard University Press, Press, December 1998. ISBN 0-691- eling, by Neil Gershenfeld. Cambridge November 1998. ISBN 0-674-04097-X. 00144-8. University Press, February 1999. ISBN The of Life, by George Infosense: Turning Data and Infor- 0-521-57095-6. Shaffner. Ballantine Books, August mation into Knowledge, by Keith New Directions in the Philosophy of 1999. ISBN 0-345-42631-2. Devlin. W. H. Freeman, June 1999. ISBN Mathematics: An Anthology, Thomas The Code Book: The Evolution of 0-716-73484-2. Tymoczko, Editor. Princeton Univer- Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to The Invention of Infinity: Mathe- sity Press, revised edition, January Quantum Cryptography, by Simon matics and Art in the Renaissance, by 1998. ISBN 0-691-03498-2. Singh. Doubleday, October 1999. ISBN J. V. Field. Oxford University Press, Noeuds: Genèse d’une théorie math- 0-385-49531-5. (Reviewed March May 1997. ISBN 0-198-52394-7. ématique (Knots: Genesis of a Mathe- 2000.) (Reviewed January 2000.) matical Theory), by Alexei Sossinsky

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(in French). Seuil, 1999. ISBN 2-020- Stephen Smale: The Mathematician 32089-4. Who Broke the Dimension Barrier, by The Nothing That Is: A Natural His- Steve Batterson. AMS, February 2000. tory of Zero, by Robert Kaplan. Oxford ISBN 0-821-82045-1. University Press, October 1999. ISBN Turing and the Computer (The Big 0-195-12842-7. Idea), by Paul Strathern. Anchor Books, Number: From Ahmes to Cantor, April 1999. ISBN 0-385-49243-X. by Midhat Gazalé. Princeton Univer- *Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Con- sity Press, March 2000. ISBN 0-691- jecture by Apolstolos Doxiadis. 00515-X. Bloomsbury USA, February 2000. ISBN The Number Devil, by Hans Magnus 1-582-34067-6. Enzensberger. Metropolitan Books, The Universal History of Numbers: October 1998. ISBN 0-805-05770-6. From Prehistory to the Invention of (Reviewed January 2000.) the Computer, by Georges Ifrah (trans- The Number Sense: How the Mind lated by David Bellos, Sophie Wood, Creates Mathematics, by Stanislas and Ian Monk). John Wiley & Sons, Dehaene. Oxford University Press, December 1999. ISBN 0-471-37568-3. October 1997. ISBN 0-195-11004-8. What Are the Odds?: Chance in Philosophy of Mathematics: An Everyday Life, by Michael Orkin. Introduction to a World of Proofs and W. H. Freeman, December 1999. ISBN 0-716-73560-1. Pictures, by James Robert Brown. What Counts: How Every Brain is Routledge, August 1999. ISBN 0-415- Hardwired for Math, by Brian 12274-0. Butterworth. Free Press, August 1999. Pioneers of Representation Theory: ISBN 0-684-85417-1. Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and What Is Random?: Discovering Brauer, by Charles W. Curtis. Chance and Order in Mathematics and AMS/London Mathematical Society, the World, by Edward J. Beltrami. October 1999. ISBN 0-821-89002-6. Springer-Verlag, August 1999. ISBN 0- Proofs and Contradictions: The Story 387-98737-1. of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjec- What’s Happening in the Mathe- ture, by David M. Bressoud. MAA matical Sciences, 1998–1999, by Barry Spectrum , published jointly with Cipra. AMS, December 1998. ISBN 0- Cambridge University Press, August 821-80766-8. 1999. ISBN 0-521-66646-5. Why Do Buses Come In Threes?, by Shadows of the Circle: Conic Sections, Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham. Optimal Figures and Non-Euclidean John Wiley & Sons, May 1999. ISBN 0- Geometry, by Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen. 471-34756-6. World Scientific Publishing Company, *The Wild Numbers, by Philibert November 1998. ISBN 9-810-23418-X. Schogt. Four Walls Eight Windows, Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and April 2000. ISBN 1-568-68166-1. Further Adventures in Applied Math- *Zero: The Biography of a Danger- ematics, by Robert B. Banks. Princeton ous Idea, by Charles Seife. Viking University Press, September 1999. Press, February 2000. ISBN 0-670- ISBN 0-691-05947-0. 88457-X. Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness, by Duncan J. Watts. Princeton University Press, November 1999. ISBN 0-691-00541-9. Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis, by Douglas M. Jesseph. University of Chicago Press, December 1999. ISBN 0-226- 39899-4 (cloth) 0-226-39900-1 (paper). Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods, by Stephen M. Stigler. Harvard University Press, November 1999. *Added to the “Book List” since the List’s last ISBN 0-674-83601-4. appearance. & BOOK LIST REFERENCE

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