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Reference and Book List, Vol. 51, Number 8 Reference and Book List The Reference section of the Notices Upcoming Deadlines September 16, 2004: Proposals for is intended to provide the reader with September 15, 2004: Full proposals NSF Enhancing the Mathematical Sci- frequently sought information in for REU sites. See “Mathematics Op- ences Workforce in the Twenty-First Cen- an easily accessible manner. New portunities” in this issue. tury program (including VIGRE). See the information is printed as it becomes September 15, 2004: Nominations for website http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/ available and is referenced after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships. 2003/nsf03575/nsf03575.htm. first printing. As soon as information See http://www.sloan.org/programs/ September 30, 2004: Nominations is updated or otherwise changed, it fellowship_brochure.shtml or write for Information-Based Complexity will be noted in this section. to Sloan Research Fellowships, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 630 Fifth Av- Young Researcher Award. Contact Contacting the Notices enue, Suite 2550, New York, New York Joseph F. Traub at traub@cs. The preferred method for contacting 10111. columbia.edu. the Notices is electronic mail. The editor is the person to whom to send Where to Find It articles and letters for consideration. A brief index to information that appears in this and previous issues of the Articles include feature articles, Notices. memorial articles, communications, AMS Bylaws—November 2003, p. 1283 opinion pieces, and book reviews. The AMS E-mail Addresses—November 2003, p. 1266 editor is also the person to whom to AMS Ethical Guidelines—June/July 2004, p. 673 send news of unusual interest about AMS Officers 2002 and 2003 (Council, Executive Committee, other people’s mathematics research. Publications Committees, Board of Trustees)—May 2004, p. 566 The managing editor is the person AMS Officers and Committee Members—October 2003, p. 1115 to whom to send items for “Mathe- Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences—September 2004, p. 921 matics People”, “Mathematics Op- Information for Notices Authors—June/July 2004, p. 668 portunities”, “For Your Information”, Mathematics Research Institutes Contact Information—August 2004, “Reference and Book List”, and “Math- p. 810 ematics Calendar”. Requests for National Science Board—January 2004, p. 54 permissions, as well as all other New Journals for 2003—June/July 2004, p. 670 inquiries, go to the managing editor. NRC Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications—March 2004, The electronic-mail addresses are p. 350 [email protected] in the case of NRC Mathematical Sciences Education Board—April 2004, p. 446 the editor and [email protected] in NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee—February the case of the managing editor. The 2004, p. 242 fax numbers are 405-325-7484 for Program Officers for Federal Funding Agencies—October 2003, the editor and 401-331-3842 for the p. 1107 (DoD, DoE); December 2003, p. 1429 (NSF) managing editor. Postal addresses may be found in the masthead. 920 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 8 Reference and Book List October 1, 2004: Applications for competitions. See http://www.dean. Book List AWM Travel Grants. See “Mathemat- usma.edu/math/pubs/ The Book List highlights books that ics Opportunities” in this issue. cryptologia/ or contact Cryptolo- have mathematical themes and are October 1, 2004: Nominations for gia, Department of Mathematical Sci- aimed at a broad audience potentially the Louise Hay Award and the Alice T. ences, United States Military Acad- including mathematicians, students, Schafer Mathematics Prize. Contact Hay emy, West Point, NY 10996; email: and the general public. When a book Award Selection Committee or Alice T. [email protected]. has been reviewed in the Notices, a Schafer Award Selection Committee, As- February 1, 2005: Applications for reference is given to the review. Gen- sociation for Women in Mathematics, AWM Travel Grants and AWM Men- erally the list will contain only books 4114 Computer & Space Sciences Build- toring Travel Grants. See “Mathemat- published within the last two years, ing, University of Maryland, College Park, ics Opportunities” in this issue. though exceptions may be made in MD 20742-2461; telephone 301-405- May 1, 2005: Applications for AWM cases where current events (e.g., the 7892; e-mail to [email protected]. Travel Grants. See “Mathematics Op- death of a prominent mathematician, October 1, 2004: Nominations for portunities” in this issue. coverage of a certain piece of mathe- CRM-Fields Prize. See http://www. matics in the news) warrant drawing fields.utoronto.ca/proposals/ Conference Board on the Mathematical Sciences readers’ attention to older books. Sug- crm-fields_prize.html, or contact gestions for books to include on the list 1529 Eighteenth Street, NW the Director, The Fields Institute, 222 may be sent to notices-booklist@ Washington, DC 20036 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T ams.org. 202-293-1170 3J1, Canada. *Added to “Book List” since the http://www.cbmsweb.org/ October 13, 2004: Full proposals list’s last appearance. for NSF Distinguished International Abel’s Proof: An Essay on the Ronald C. Rosier Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Administrative Officer See “Mathematics Opportunities” in Unsolvability, by Peter Pesic. MIT Press, Phone: 202-293-1170 this issue. May 2003. ISBN 0-262-16216-4. (Re- Fax: 202-293-3412 October 15, 2004: Applications for viewed March 2004.) support for activities at the Pacific Lisa R. Kolbe Across the Board: The Mathematics Institute for the Mathematical Sci- Administrative Coordinator of Chessboard Problems, by John J. ences. See “Mathematics Opportuni- Phone: 202-293-1170 Watkins. Princeton University Press, ties” in this issue. Fax: 202-293-3412 April 2004. ISBN 0-691-11503-6. October 15, 2004: Applications for Adam Spencer’s Book of Numbers, support for activities at Banff Inter- Member Societies by Adam Spencer. Four Walls Eight national Research Station for Mathe- American Mathematical Association Windows, January 2004. ISBN 1-568- matical Innovation and Discovery. See of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) 58289-7. “Mathematics Opportunities” in this American Mathematical Society (AMS) After Math, by Miriam Webster. issue. American Statistical Association (ASA) Zinka Press, June 1997. ISBN 0-9647- October 15, 2004: Proposals for Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) 1711-5. (Reviewed October 2003.) NSA Grant and Sabbatical Programs. Association for Women in Mathe- Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a See “Mathematics Opportunities” in matics (AWM) Great Thinker, edited by Christof this issue. Association of Mathematics Teacher Teuscher. Springer, 2004. ISBN 3-540- October 15, 2004: Applications for Educators (AMTE) 20020-7. NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow- Association of State Supervisors of Alpha & Omega: The Search for the ships. See http://www.nsf.gov/ Mathematics (ASSM) Beginning and End of the Universe, by pubs/2001/nsf01126/nsf01126. Benjamin Banneker Association (BBA) Charles Seife. Viking, July 2003. ISBN htm. Institute for Operations Research and 0-670-03179-8. November 1, 2004: Applications the Management Sciences Automated Reasoning and the Dis- for NSF International Research Fellow (INFORMS) covery of Missing and Elegant Proofs, Awards. See “Mathematics Opportu- Institute of Mathematical Statistics by Larry Wos and Gail Pieper. Rinton nities” in this issue. (IMS) Press, December 2003. ISBN 1-58949- December 1, 2004: Applications Mathematical Association of America 023-1. for AMS Centennial Research Fellow- (MAA) * Beyond Coincidence, by Martin National Association of Mathemati- ships. See “Mathematics Opportuni- Plimmer and Brian King. Icon Books, cians (NAM) ties” in this issue. March 2004. ISBN 1-840-46534-4. National Council of Supervisors of December 1, 2004: Nominations Beyond the Limit: The Dream of Mathematics (NCSM) for the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize. Sofya Kovalevskaya, by Joan Spicci. National Council of Teachers of Math- See http://www.crm.es/Ferran- Forge, August 2002. ISBN 0-765- ematics (NCTM) SunyerBalaguer/ffsb.htm. 30233-0. (Reviewed January 2004.) Society for Industrial and Applied January 1, 2005: Entries for Cryp- The Book of My Life, by Girolamo Mathematics (SIAM) tologia undergraduate paper Cardano. New York Review of Books Society of Actuaries (SOA) SEPTEMBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 921 Reference and Book List Classics Series/Granta. ISBN 1-590- Four Colors Suffice: How the Map ISBN 0-297-60725-1 (hardcover) 0-753- 17016-4. Problem Was Solved, by Robin Wilson. 81782-9 (paperback). Calculated Risks: How to Know Princeton University Press, March Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of When Numbers Decieve You, by Gerd 2003. ISBN 0-691-11533-8. (Reviewed the Greatest Minds in History Helped Gigerenzer. Simon & Schuster, March February 2004.) Solve One of the Oldest Math Prob- 2003. ISBN 0-743-25423-6. The Fractal Murders, by Mark lems in the World, by George G. Szpiro. California Dreaming: Reforming Cohen. Mysterious Press, Warner John Wiley & Sons, January 2003. ISBN Mathematics Education, by Suzanne M. Books, May 2004. ISBN 0-89296-799- 0-471-08601-0. Wilson. Yale Univ Press, January 2003. 4. (Reviewed October 2003.) Linked: The New Science of Net- ISBN 0-300-09432-9. (Reviewed No- From Newton to Hawking: A History works, by Albert-László Barabási. vember 2003.) of Cambridge University’s Lucasian Perseus Publishing, May 2002. ISBN The Changing Shape of Geometry: Professors of Mathematics, edited by 0-738-20667-9. (Reviewed February Celebrating a Century of Geometry Kevin C. Knox and Richard Noakes. 2004.) and Geometry Teaching, edited by Cambridge University Press, Novem- Masters of Theory: Cambridge and Chris Pritchard. Cambridge Univer- ber 2003. ISBN 0-521-66310-5. the Rise of Mathematical Physics, by sity Press, January 2003. ISBN 0-521- Galois’ Theory of Algebraic Equa- Andrew Warwick. University of 53162-4. tions, by Jean-Pierre Tignol. World Sci- Chicago Press, July 2003. ISBN 0-226- Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of entific Publishing. ISBN 981-02- 87375-7. Venn Diagrams, by A. W. F.
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