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The Jungles of Randomness, Ivars Peterson. Pp. 239. £11.99. 1998. ISBN 0-14-027172-4 (Penguin).
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The pleasures of counting, by T. W. Körner. Pp. 533. £17.95. 1996. ISBN 0 521 56087 X (hard) 0 521 56823 4 (paper) (Cambridge University Press).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 322-323
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Darwin among the machines, by George Dyson. Pp. 286. £20. 1987. ISBN 0 713 99205 0 (Allen Lane: The Penguin Press).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 323-325
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Lion hunting & other mathematical pursuits: a collection of mathematical verse, and stories by Ralph P. Boas, Jr., edited by Gerald L. Alexanderson and Dale H. Mugler. Pp. 308. $39.95 (MAA members $29.95). 1995. ISBN 0-8838-323-X (Mathematical Association of America).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 325-326
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Insights of genius, by Arthur J. Miller. Pp. 482. DM38. ISBN 0 387 94671 3 (Copernicus Springer-Verlag).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 326-327
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Richard Feynman – a life in science, by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin. Pp. 301. £7.99. 1998. ISBN 0-14-025334-3 (Penguin).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 327-328
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Problems and solutions from The Mathematical Visitor: 1877-1896, edited by Stanley Rabinowitz. Pp. 258. 1996. ISBN 0-9626401-5-8. (bowron@MathPro.com, MathPro Press).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 328-329
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Mathematics of the Incas: code of the quipu, by Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher. Pp.166. $11.95. 1997. ISBN 0 486 29554 0 (Dover Publications, NY). (An unabridged and corrected republication of the work first published by University of Michigan Press in 1981 under the title Code of the quipu: a study in media, mathematics, and Culture.)
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 329-330
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SMP 11-16 Book A7. Pp. 49. £4.95. 1997. ISBN 0-521-47846-4 (Cambridge University Press).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 330-331
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SMP GCSE Mathematics Revision Series - Revise for GCSE Mathematics – Intermediate Tier, SMP. £4.95. 1997. ISBN 0 521 57902 3. (Cambridge) - GCSE Mathematics revision – Higher Tier, SMP. £4.95. 1997. ISBN 0 521 57907 4 (Cambridge) - GCSE Mathematics revision worksheets for Intermediate and Higher – Copymasters, SMP. £12.95. 1997. ISBN 0 521 57906 6 (Cambridge).
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A number album, by S. Parameswaran. Pp. 49. 1996. ISBN not available (Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Publication No. 30, available directly from the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Thundathil, Kariavattom, Trivandrum-695 581, Kerala State, India, (tel: 418035))
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Mathematical Challenges III, edited by Bill Richardson. Pp. 66. £7.50. 1998. ISBN 0 9532786 0 3 (The Scottish Mathematical Council).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 332-333
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More mathematical challenges, by Tony Gardiner. Pp. 140. £6.95. 1997. ISBN 0 521 58568 6 (Cambridge University Press). - The Mathematical Olympiad handbook, by A. Gardiner. Pp. 229. £14.95. 1997. ISBN 0 19 850105 6 (Oxford University Press). - The contest problem book V, by George Berzsenyi and Stephen E. Maurer. Pp 286. $27.95. 1997. ISBN 0 88385 640 9 (The Mathematical Association of America).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 333-335
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Advanced problems in mathematics (2nd edition), by S. T. C. Siklos. Pp. 91. 1996. (UCLES). (Available directly from: Publications, UCLES, Syndicate Buildings, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge CB1 2EU.)
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The complete A-Z mathematics handbook, by John Berry, Ted Graham, Jenny Sharp and Elizabeth Berry. Pp. 267. £8.99. 1997. ISBN 0-340-68803-3 (Hodder & Stoughton).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 335-337
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Help yourself to integration, by Hugh Neill. Pp. 91. £5.50. 1997. ISBN 0-582-31804-1 (Longman).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 337-338
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For all practical purposes – introduction to contemporary mathematics (4th edition), by COMAP (Project Director Solomon Garfunkel). Pp. 884. £29.95. 1997. ISBN 0-7167-2841-9 (W. H. Freeman).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 338-339
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Interdisciplinary lively application projects (ILAPs), edited by David C. Arney. Pp.222. $27.50 ($22 MAA members). 1997. ISBN 0 88385 706 5 (The Mathematical Association of America).
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Resources for teaching linear algebra, edited by David Carlson, Charles R. Johnson, David C. Lay, A. Duane Porter, Ann E. Watkins and William Watkins. Pp. 287. $34.95. 1997. ISBN 0-88385-150-4 (Mathematical Association of America).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 339-341
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Linear algebra, by Peter D. Lax. Pp. 250. £45. 1997. ISBN 0 471 111112 (John Wiley).
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- 01 August 2016, pp. 342-343
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