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AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY The AMS Bookstore Summer Sale www.amsbookstore.org Catch up on summer reading with these “hot” AMS titles and substantial discounts when you order via the AMS Bookstore. In keeping with the summer season, these excellent sale titles are on topics of broad interest. There are also selections to help you prepare for the upcoming fall semester. You'll note that among the sale items are some of our bestselling titles, Chaotic Elections by Don Saari, How to Teach Mathematics by Steve Krantz, Triangle of Thoughts by Alain Connes, André Lichnerowicz, and Marcel Paul Schützenberger, and many more. Visit the AMS Bookstore to get low prices on these and other great selections from the AMS Summer Sale at www.amsbookstore.org. Sale prices are available ONLY through AMS Bookstore orders. Direct sales only. Not available to bookstores or agents. Sale ends September 19, 2002. Go to www.amsbookstore.org to place your order. Stephen Smale:The grand avenue of knowledge on which we are On Being a Department KOLMOGOROV mathematician who broke riding.With resuscitations of some fading Head, a Personal View IN PERSPECTIVE photographs and an impressive list of more than History of the dimension barrier John B. Conway, University of Mathematics 300 references, this book is a very valuable addi- Volume 20 Tennessee, Knoxville Steve Batterson, Emory University, tion to the literature on Ramanujan. —CHOICE Atlanta, GA Provokes the reader to think through some of Delightful reading … a useful reference on the difficult issues … There are few books that This well-researched book provides a great deal English analysts and number theorists of deal so directly with running a University depart- of personal and historical information on Smale, Hardy’s time … has many pictures, some of ment and therefore this book should be read by and also attempts to portray his mathematics them quite marvelous … What Berndt and American for a general reader. anyone with an interest in that endeavour. Its Mathematical —Mathematical Reviews Rankin have done is to make a great deal of Society easy style and treatment of universal manage- primary material available to … scholars. London Batterson’s book is readable by, and accessible ment issues make it worthy of a wider audience. Mathematical —Zentralblatt MATH Society to, high school students … Smale’s life is —The Mathematical Gazette inspiring; Batterson’s book is fascinating. The book is very readable, contains much mate- 1997; 107 pages; Softcover; ISBN 0-8218-0615-7; Kolmogorov in Perspective —The Mathematics Teacher rial not available elsewhere and can be read at a List $25; Sale price $18; Order code AHEADSS02 The translations in the present work convey the Batterson has done an outstanding job of variety of levels, so it can be highly recommended nuances of the Russian original very well … collecting factual information on Smale’s youth to anyone with an interest in Ramanujan. The selection of materials gives a very good and education … This information should be —Bulletin of the London presentation of Kolmogorov’s life, thought, and read by the rank and file of all undergraduate Mathematical Society ENVELOPING influence. —Mathematical Reviews and graduate students in mathematics … Copublished with the London Mathematical Society. Members of the LMS may order directly from the ALGEBRAS Copublished with the London Mathematical Batterson’s insight on Smale’s personality is a AMS at the AMS member price. The LMS is regis- Society. Members of the LMS may order directly wonderful suggestion for all in research. tered with the Charity Commissioners. from the AMS at the AMS member price. The LMS —MAA Online Jacques Dixmier is registered with the Charity Commissioners. Customers in India, please contact Affiliated East- 2000; 306 pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-2045-1; West Press Private Ltd., 62–A Ornes Road, Kilpauk, History of Mathematics, Volume 20; 2000; 230 List $35; Sale price $25; Order code MBDBSS02 Madras, 600 010, INDIA; Fax 044-825-7258. pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-0872-9; List $49; Graduate Studies History of Mathematics, Volume 9; 1995; 347 in Mathematics Sale price $34; Order code HMATH/20SS02 Volume 11 History of pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-0287-9; List $62; THEMAT A IC M A L N ΤΡΗΤΟΣ ΜΗ Mathematics ΕΙΣΙΤΩ A S O C I C R I E E ΑΓΕΩΜΕ T Y Sale price $43; Order code HMATH/9SS02 M American Mathematical Society A F 8 O 88 Poincaré and the Three Body Volume 9 UNDED 1 Problem RAMANUJAN Enveloping Algebras June Barrow-Green, The Open University, LETTERS and COMMENTARY Milton Keynes, UK Jacques Dixmier, Paris, France TRIANGLE A fair treatment and a nice description of the Self-contained, written with precision and OF THOUGHTSatics elegance … an excellent textbook for the grad- history regarding Poincaré and the three body P athem h Philosophy ysics problem … of interest to many mathematicians, M uate student, a very good background for the physicists and astronomers … a balanced and professional algebraist not very familiar with the subject and a very useful source of references very readable book … recommend[ed] … to all BRUCE C. BERNDT and ROBERT A. RANKIN American Mathematical Society for the expert. mathematically trained people with an interest London Mathematical Society —Zentralblatt MATH in the historical origins of chaos. ALAIN CONNES For the graduate student, this is a masterpiece —Nonlinear Science Today Ramanujan: Letters and ANDRE´ LICHNEROWICZ MARCEL PAUL SCHUTZENBERGER¨ of pedagogical writing, being succinct, wonder- Copublished with the London Mathematical Commentary fully self-contained and of exceptional precision. Society. Members of the LMS may order directly —Mathematical Reviews from the AMS at the AMS member price. The LMS Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinois, Triangle of Thoughts is registered with the Charity Commissioners. Urbana, and Robert A. Rankin, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 11; Alain Connes, André Lichnerowicz, 1996; 379 pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-0560-6; History of Mathematics, Volume 11; 1997; 272 University of Glasgow, Scotland and Marcel Paul Schützenberger List $62; Sale price $43; Order code GSM/11SS02 pages; Softcover; ISBN 0-8218-0367-0; List $41; This commendable collection … is a unique Sale price $29; Order code HMATH/11SS02 In this book, these three members of the contribution to the history of mathematics for at Fourier Analysis least two reasons. It has brought together precious French Academy of Sciences discuss the rela- documents scattered in many places and provides tions among mathematics, physics, philosophy, Javier Duoandikoetxea, Universidad del the reader with a wealth of interesting matters and other sciences. País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, related to one of the luminaries in the world of 2001; 179 pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-2614-X; Bilbao, Spain List $30; Sale price $21; Order code TOTSS02 mathematics. Second, through brief and insightful This is a great introductory book to Fourier notes and commentaries, the work throws light on analysis on Euclidean spaces and can serve as many an interesting side street connecting to the AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY a textbook in an introductory graduate course Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 17; but one well worth reading. In brief: Should you History of Mathematics on the subject … The chapters on the Hardy- 1997; 259 pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-0777- Volume 14 buy the book for a friend? 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The “present at the creation”, hanging around HADAMARD, Princeton, attending teas and gossiping with students will have a lot to benefit from in the John von Neumann A Universal Mathematician simple and quick presentation of the book. inside figures, listening to explanatory lectures —Mathematical Reviews The Scientific Genius and attending celebratory conferences? … Who Pioneered the Vladimir Maz′ya recommended it as an addition to both Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 29; Modern Computer, Tatyana Shaposhnikova personal and institutional libraries. 2001; 222 pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-2172- Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, —MAA Online 5; List $35; Sale price $25; Order code American Mathematical Society and Much More London Mathematical Society GSM/29SS02 Mozzochi provides us with a great deal of valuable primary data. The photographs, in Differential Geometry, Lie NORMAN MACRAE Jacques Hadamard,A particular, will be of great value to future histo- Groups, and Symmetric Spaces Universal Mathematician rians. —American Scientist THEMAT A IC M A L N ΤΡΗΤΟΣ ΜΗ ΕΙΣΙΤΩ A S O C I C R I E E ΑΓΕΩΜΕ T MERICAN ATHEMATICAL OCIETY M A M S Y Vladimir Maz ya and Tatyana A 2000; 196 pages; Hardcover; ISBN 0-8218-2670- F OU 88 Sigurdur Helgason, Massachusetts NDED 18 ´ Institute of Technology, Cambridge Shaposhnikova, Linköping University, 0; List $29; Sale price $20; Order code Sweden FERMATDSS02 From reviews for the First Edition: John von Neumann The Scientific Genius Who The book is filled with brief and fascinating Renders a great service in permitting the non- biographies of many of these colleagues, with Pioneered the Modern specialist, with a minimum knowledge of amusing anecdotes and incisive quotations, and differential geometry and Lie groups, an initia- Computer, Game Theory, A Mathematician Looks at Voting with an illuminating description of the academic Donald G. 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