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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. 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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.