New Book Explores the Ideas of Mathematics SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical AnalysisClassical Applied Mathematics Paul Nahin reviews The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math by Manil Suri.
A Novel View of an 18th-century Celestial Atlas SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsClassical Applied Mathematics Ernest Davis reviews Giles Sparrow's new book, Phenomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas.
Musings on Mathematics in Mid-20th-century America SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsClassical Applied Mathematics Ernest Davis reviews Alma Steingart's new book, Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism.
A Whirlwind Tour of Mathematics and Its History SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsClassical Applied Mathematics Ernest Davis reviews The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics by John Stillwell.
John Venn, the Man Behind the Diagrams SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsClassical Applied Mathematics Ernest Davis reviews John Venn: A Life in Logic, a new biography by philosopher Lukas Verburgt.