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Volume 62 - June 1978

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Fractals: form, chance and dimension, by Benoit B. Mandelbrot. Pp xvi, 365. $14·95.1977. SBN 0 7167 0473 0 (Freeman)

Encounter with mathematics, by Lars Garding. Pp ix, 270. DM22-30. 1977. SBN 3 540 90229 5 (Springer)

M. C. Escher kaleidocycles, by Doris Schattschneider and Wallace Walker. Pp 43 plus 17 models. $8·95. 1977. SBN 0 345 25686 7 (Ballantine)

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The use of vectors in mechanics

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The foundations of mathematics, by Ian Stewart and David Tall. Pp. xi, 263. £3·95 paperback, £7·50 boards. 1977. SBN 019 853165 6/853164 8 (OxfordUniversity Press)

An introduction to abstract algebra, by Thomas A. Whitelaw. Pp ix, 166. £4·95. 1978. SBN 0 216 90488 9 (Blackie)

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Back to square one

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Elementary probability theory, by Melvin Hausner. Pp viii, 310. $8·95. 1971, reprinted 1977. SBN 0 306 20026 0 (Plenum)

Mathematical discoveries 1600-1750, by P. L. Griffiths. Pp 121. £2·75. 1977. SBN 0 7223 1006 4 (Stockwell)

Use of mathematical literature, edited by A. R. Dorling. Pp. xii, 260. £12. 1977. SBN 0 408 70913 8 (Butterworth)

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Can an animal keep warm?

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Textbook of dynamics, by F. Chorlton. Pp 263. £3·90. 1978. SBN 0 85312 089 7 (Horwood/Wiley)

Catastrophe theory: selected papers 1972-1977, by E. C. Zeeman. Pp x, 675. $26.50 hardbound, $14·50 paperbound. 1977. SBN 0 201 09014 7/09015 5 (Addison-Wesley)

Mathematics: friend or foe?, by Dorothy Evans. Pp 140. £5·50 hardback, £2·50 paperback. 1977. SBN 0 04 372022 6/372023 4 (George Allen and Unwin)

Financial tables, by Alan Yeats, John White and Gordon Skipworth. Pp 44. 95p. 1978. SBN 0 85950 411 5 (Stanley Thornes)

Continuing mathematics. Teacher’s handbook and 53 units. 40 p per unit (minimum order £6) plus postage from Longman Resources Unit, 9/11 The Shambles, York. 1977. (CET/Schools Council)

Adventures with your hand calculator, by Råde Lennart and Kaufman Burt A. Pp iv, 131. 1977 (CEMREL)

Selected papers on algebra, edited by Susan Montgomery, Elizabeth W. Ralston and others. Pp xv, 537. 1977. SBN 0 88385 203 9 (Mathematical Association of America)

Teaching primary mathematics: strategy and evaluation, edited by J. A. Glenn. Pp ix, 110. £3·95 cloth, £1·95 paperback. 1977. SBN 0 06 318071 5/318072 3 (Harper & Row)

Algebra, by P. M. Cohn. Volume 2. Pp xiii, 483. £8·95.1977. SBN 0 471 01823 6 (Wiley)

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