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Another quick proof that e < 3

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Reviews - The crossing of heaven: memoirs of a mathematician, by Karl Gustafson. Pp. 176. $59.95. 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-22557-4 (Springer).

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Reviews - Golf by the numbers, by Roland Minton. Pp. 291 £18.00 (hbk). 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0315-1 (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Reviews - The mathematical writings of Évariste Galois, by Peter M. Neumann. Pp. 421. £74.50 (hbk.) 2011. ISBN: 978-3-03719-104-0 (European Mathematical Society).

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Proof without words: a characterisation of the difference of two squares

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Teaching Quadratic Functions

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Reviews - Mathematics in Victorian Britain, by Raymond Flood, Adrian Rice and Robin Wilson (eds.). Pp. 466. £29.99 (hbk). 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-960139-4 (Oxford University Press).

Reviews - Fuelling innovation and discovery. The mathematical sciences in the 21st century, by The National Research Council of the National Academies. Pp. 57. £13.99. 2012. ISBN 978-0-309-25473-1(The National Academies Press.)

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Binomial averages: an erratum

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Reviews - Fisber, Neyman, and tbe creation of classical statistics, by Erich Lehmann. Pp. 115. £24.99. 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4419-9499-8 (Springer).

Reviews - Numbers rule: the vexing mathematics of democracy from plato to the present, by George G. Szpiro. Pp. 226 £18.95 (Hardback). 2010. ISBN: 9780-691-13994-4 (Princeton University Press).

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Reviews - Maths on trial: how numbers get used and abused, by Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez. Pp. 236. £17.99. 2013. ISBN: 978-0-465-03292-1 (Basic Books).

Reviews - Origami design secrets: mathematical methods for an ancient art, by Robert Lang. Pp.758. £38.99. 2011. ISBN: 978-1-56881-436-0 (CRC Press).

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MAG volume 97 issue 538 Cover and Front matter

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Reviews - Math goes to the movies, by Burkhard Polster and Marty Ross Pp. 286. £18.00. 2012. ISBN: 978-1-4214-0484-4 (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Reviews - The ballet of the planets: on the mathematical elegance of planetary motion, by Donald C. Benson. Pp. 162. $35.00 (Hardback). 2012. ISBN: 978-0-19-989100-9 (Oxford University Press).

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