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Volume 96 - Issue 536 - July 2012

Book Review

Reviews - Advanced engineering mathematics with MATLAB (3rd edn.), by D. Duffy. Pp. 1079. £70-99. 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4398-1624-0 (CRC Press).

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Reviews - Famous puzzles of great mathematicians, by M. Petkovic. Pp. 325. £25.95. 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8218-4814-2 (American Mathematical Society).

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