How Did Newton Go So Far Off Course? SIAM NewsBook Reviews Ernest Davis reviews Newton and the Origin of Civilization, by Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold.
Foxes, Hedgehogs, and the Art of Prediction SIAM NewsBook Reviews James Case reviews Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don’t."
An Unconventional History of the Early IAS Computer SIAM NewsBook Reviews Thomas Haigh reviews Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson.
The (Admittedly Beautiful) Conservation Laws of Financial Economics SIAM NewsBook Reviews James Case reviews Finance and the Good Society by Robert J. Shiller.
Mathematics: Handmaiden to Architecture SIAM NewsBook Reviews Philip Davis reviews Mathematical Excursions to the World’s Great Buildings by Alexander J. Hahn.