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Volume 84 - July 2000

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Geometry civilized: history, culture and technique, by J. L. Heilbron. Pp. 309. £35. 1998. ISBN 0 19 850078 5 (Oxford University Press).

A history of algorithms: from the pebble to the microchip, by Jean-Luc Chabert (ed.), tr. Chris Weeks. Pp. 524. 1999. ISBN 3 540 63369 3 (Springer-Verlag). - History of mathematics, histories of problems, Inter-IREM Commission, tr. Chris Weeks. Pp. 429. 1997. ISBN 2 7298 4730 8 (Ellipses, Paris).

Orthogonal sets and polar methods in linear algebra, by E. Castillo, A. Cobo, F. Jubete and R. E. Pruneda. Pp. 422. $70. 1999. ISBN 0 471 32889 8 (Wiley)

Labyrinth of thought: a history of set theory and its role in modern mathematics, by José Ferreirós. Pp. 464. sFr 168 (198 DM). 1999. ISBN 3 7643 5749 5 (Birkhäuser).

The emergence of the American mathematical research community 1876-1900:J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein and E. H. Moore, by Karen Hunger Parshall and David E. Rowe. Pp. 500. £25.00. 1997. ISBN 0 8218 9004 2 (American Mathematical Society / London Mathematical Society).

Introduction to cardinal arithmetic, by M. Holz, K. Steffens and E. Weitz. Pp. 304. SFr88. 1999. ISBN 3 7643 6124 7 (Basle) (Birkhäuser)

Introduction to cardinal arithmetic, by M. Holz, K. Steffens and E. Weitz. Pp. 304. SFr88. 1999. ISBN 3 7643 6124 7. (Birkhäuser).

Elliptic curves (function theory, geometry, arithmetic), by Henry McKean and Victor Moll. Pp. 280. £18.95. 1999. ISBN 0 521 65817 9 (Cambridge University Press).

Logic as algebra, by Paul Halmos and Steven Givant. Pp.141. $27. 1998. Vol. 21. ISBN 0 88385 327 2 (Mathematical Association of America).

Introduction to set theory (3rd edn.) by Karel Hrbacek and Thomas Jech. Pp. 291. $69.75. 1999. ISBN 0 8247 7915 0 (Dekker).

Handbook of discrete and combinatorial mathematics, edited by Kenneth H. Rosen, John G. Michaels, Jonathon L. Gross, Jerrold W. Grossman, Douglas R. Shier. Pp. 1232. $99.95/£40.50. ISBN 0 8493 0149 1 (CRC Press).

Practical foundations of mathematics, by Paul Taylor. Pp. 572. £50. 1999. ISBN 0 521 63107 6 (Cambridge University Press).

Introduction to discrete dynamical systems and chaos, by Mario Martelli. Pp. 328. £45.50. 1999. ISBN 0 471 31975 9 (Wiley).

Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness, by Duncan J. Watts. Pp. 262. £24.95. 1999. ISBN 0 691 00541 9 (Princeton University Press).

The mathematics of ciphers: number theory and RSA cryptography, by S. C. Coutinho. Pp. 196. £19.00. 1999. ISBN 1 56881 082 2 (A. K. Peters).

Introduction to abstract algebra (2nd edn.), by W. Keith Nicholson. Pp. 599. £58.50. 1999. ISBN 0 471 33109 0 (Wiley).

The importance of being fuzzy and other insights from the border between math and computers, by Arturo Sangalli. Pp. 173. £18.95. 1999. ISBN 0 691 00144 8 (Princeton University Press).

Feynman lectures on computation, by Richard P. Feynman, edited by Anthony J. G. Hey and Robin W. Allen. Pp. 303. £18.99. 1999. ISBN 0 14 028451 6 (Penguin).

Classical invariant theory, by Peter J. Olver. LMS Student Texts 44. Pp. 280. £13.95 (pb), £37.50 (hb). 1999. ISBN 0 521 55821 2 (pb), 0 521 55243 5 (hb) (Cambridge University Press).

Abelian groups and modules, edited by Paul Eklof and Rüdiger Göbel. Pp. 373. SFrl68. 1999. ISBN 3 7643 6172 7. (Birkhäuser). - Analysis and geometry in several complex variables, edited by Gen Komatsu and Masatake Kuranishi. Pp. 314. SFr158. 1999. ISBN 3 7643 4067 3. (Birkhäuser).

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