A Topological Menagerie
Melvin, Paul
Some of the party games that young teenagers play have surprisingly rich mathematical content. …
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Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic
Wood, Carol
Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. By Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman. Cambridge U…
Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, The
Hersh, Reuben
The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics. By Stanislas D…
Discreteness and Continuity in Problems of Chaotic Dynamics
Dynamical Systems, P. Discreteness and Continuity in Problems of Chaotic Dynam…
Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives
Pittie, Harsh V
Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives. Edited by V. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P L…
Life’s Other Secret / The Magical Maze
Schnabel, Dan
Life’s Other Secret. By Ian Stewart. Wiley, New York, 1997, xiii + 285 pp., $24…
Julia, A Life in Mathematics
Blum, Lenore
Julia, A Life in Mathematics. By Constance Reid. Mathematical Association of America, Wash…
Editor’s endnotes
Palka, Bruce P
With this issue the MONTHLY passes from the stewardship of Roger Horn and his board of Associate Ed…
An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry
Green, Mark
An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry. By K. Smith, L. Kahanpaa, P. Kekalainen, and W….
Doing and proving: The place of algorithms and proofs in school mathematics
Ross, Kenneth A
In the fall of 1996, the NCTM’s Commissi…