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Volume 82 - March 1998

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82.41 More on the shot-putter problem

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Power play, by Edward I. Barbeau. Pp. 185. $29. 1997. ISBN 0-88385-523-2 (Mathematical Association of America).

The joy of π, by David Blatner. Pp. 130. £12.99. 1997. ISBN 0-713-99217-4 (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press).

The new Penguin dictionary of science, edited by M. J. Clugston. Pp. 845. £7.99. 1998. ISBN 0 14 051271 3 (Penguin).

Twenty years before the blackboard – the lessons and humor of a mathematics teacher, by Michael Stueben with Diane Sandford. Pp. 155. $27.00. 1998. ISBN 0 88385 525 9 (The Mathematical Association of America).

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82.42 According to Cocker – ??

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Math matters, by James V. Rauff. Pp.491. £22.50 1996. ISBN 0-471-30452-2 (John Wiley).

Brainchildren: Essays on designing minds, by Daniel C. Dennett. Pp. 418. £12.50 1998. ISBN 0 14 026563 5 (Penguin).

The book of numbers, by John Conway and Richard Guy. Pp. 310. DM 48. 1996. ISBN 0 387 97993 X (Copernicus-Springer).

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82.43 Epidemics

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Mathematical analysis and proof, by David S. G. Stirling. Pp. 243. £18.50. 1997. ISBN 1-898563-36-5 (Albion Publishing, Chichester).

The number sense: how the mind creates mathematics, by Stanilas Dehaene. Pp. 274. £20. 1998. ISBN 0 713 99170 4 (Allen Lane: The Penguin Press).

Fundamental ideas of analysis, by Michael C. Reed. Pp. 413. £24.95. 1998. ISBN 0-471-15996-4 (John Wiley & Sons).

Mathematics: the new golden age (Second edition), by Keith Devlin. Pp. 302. £9.99. 1998. ISBN 0 14 025865 5 (Penguin).

Lebesgue measure and integration – an introduction, by Frank Burk. Pp. 292. £60. 1998. ISBN 0-471-17978-7 (John Wiley & Sons).

Life’s other secret, by Ian Stewart. Pp. 285. £20. 1998. ISBN 0 7139 9161 5 (Allen Lane: The Penguin Press).

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82.44 Fitting of sigmoidal growth curves

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Visions: how science will revolutionise the 21st century and beyond, by Michio Kaku. Pp. 403. £18.99. 1998. ISBN 0 19 850086 6 (Oxford University Press).

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