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The Reviews collection is dedicated to presenting our readers with summaries of current books, plays, movies, and other artistic and cultural works involving mathematics.


Aspiring and Inspiring: Tenure and Leadership in Academic Mathematics
Deanna Haunsperger February 2024
Graph Theory in America: The First Hundred Years
Małgorzata Marciniak January 2024
The Discrete Mathematical Charms of Paul Erdős: A Simple Introduction
Ranjan Rohatgi December 2023
Concepts at the Heart of Mathematics—Through the Centuries
Katalin Bimbó November 2023
The Tiling Book
Keiko Kawamuro October 2023
Mexican Mathematicians in the World: Trends and Recent Contributions
Adolfo Arroyo-Rabasa and José Simental September 2023
Topology of Numbers
D. D. Long August 2023
All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)
Sarah Cannon June/July 2023
Three Questions About John von Neumann
Melvyn B. Nathanson May 2023
The Collected Works of William P. Thurston with Commentary
Francis Bonahon April 2023
Count Me In: Community and Belonging in Mathematics
Emily J. Olson March 2023
Almost Periodic and Almost Automorphic Functions in Abstract Spaces
Sorin G. Gal February 2023
3000 Years of Analysis
Anthony Weston January 2023
“THE PUTNAM”
Daniel H. Ullman October 2022
Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics
Daniel J. Velleman August 2022
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread—And Why They Stop
David Aldous June/July 2022
Games for Your Mind
Steven Clontz May 2022
Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War
David E. Rowe April 2022
The Impact and Legacy of The Ladies’ Diary (1704–1840): A Women’s Declaration
Laura E. Turner March 2022
Erasable You
Daniel S. Silver February 2022
The Unity of Combinatorics
Igor Pak January 2022
The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach (Volumes 1 & 2)
William T. Ross December 2021
Machines Like Me and A Universe of Sufficient Size
Alex Kasman November 2021
Conversational Problem Solving
Mohamed Omar October 2021
THE BOOK
Daniel H. Ullman August 2021
Erdős 100 Plus
Dan Goldston May 2021
Hilbert’s Tenth Problem
Alexandra Shlapentokh April 2021
Giovanni Battista Guccia: Pioneer of International Cooperation in Mathematics
Karen Hunger Parshall March 2021
The Weil Conjectures
Brian Hayes February 2021
The Abel Prize 2013–2017
Kenneth A. Ribet January 2021
Mathematics for Sustainability
Eric Marland December 2020
Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
Johann A. Makowsky November 2020
Bicycle or Unicycle: A Collection of Intriguing Mathematical Puzzles
Jason Rosenhouse October 2020
Or/And: A Review of Figuring Fibers
Elizabeth Wilmer September 2020
A Richer Picture of Mathematics: The Göttingen Tradition and Beyond
Jemma Lorenat August 2020
Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games, Volumes I & II
Jean-Pierre Fouque June/July 2020
American Mathematics 1890–1913: Catching Up to Europe
Deborah Kent May 2020
Mathematics for Social Justice
Emille Davie Lawrence April 2020
A Lady Mathematician in this Strange Universe: Memoirs
Lydia Bieri March 2020
Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts
Douglas Norton February 2020
An Invitation to the Rogers-Ramanujan Identities
Krishnaswami Alladi January 2020
A Singular Mathematical Promenade
Rafe Jones December 2019
Foundations of Mathematics and Physics One Century After Hilbert: New Perspectives
John C. Baez November 2019
Einstein’s Italian Mathematicians: Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity by Judith R. Goodstein
David E. Rowe October 2019
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Lisa R. Goldberg August 2019
Ten Great Ideas about Chance
Mark Huber June/July 2019
Book review: Only Human
Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen April 2019
Book Review: A Comprehensive Course in Analysis
William T. Ross January 2019
Book Review: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
John W. Dawson, Jr. September 2018
Review: A Welcome Addition to the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice
Brendan Larvor June/July 2018
Princeton Lectures in Analysis by Elias M. Stein and Rami Shakarchi–A Book Review
Charles Fefferman and Robert Fefferman May 2012
Book Review: The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
November 2009
Flowers of Ice--Beauty, Symmetry, and Complexity: A Review of "The Snowflake"
Reviewed by John A. Adam April 2005
A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity--A Review of Everything and More
Reviewed by Michael Harris June/July 2004
Review of "Sync": The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Reviewed by G. Bard Ermentrout March 2004
Like a Bridge over Colored Water: Review of "The Rainbow Bridge"
Reviewed by John A. Adam December 2002
Stephen Smale: The Mathematician Who Broke the Dimension Barrier
Reviewed by Rob Kirby December 2000
Philosophy of Mathematics, An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures
Reviewed by William G. Faris November 2000
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture and The Wild Numbers
Reviewed by Allyn Jackson November 2000
Proof
Reviewed by Dave Bayer October 2000
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Reviewed by Jeremy Gray October 2000
Small Worlds
Reviewed by Carson C. Chow September 2000
Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings
Reviewed by Alex Kasman August 2000
Noeuds: Genèse d'une Théorie Mathématique
Reviewed by Alain Goriely June/July 2000
The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
Reviewed by Jim Reeds March 2000
A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Discovering the Truth and Beauty of the Cosmos
Reviewed by Lynn Arthur Steen February 2000
The Number Devil
Reviewed by Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Hyman Bass January 2000
The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
Reviewed by Anthony Phillips January 2000
The LaTeX Graphics Companion and TeX Unbound
Reviewed by Bill Casselman December 1999
Cryptonomicon
Reviewed by Alex Kasman December 1999
An Imaginary Tale--The Story of $\sqrt{-1}$
Reviewed by Brian E. Blank November 1999
What is Mathematics, Really?
Reviewed by Ed Dubinsky October 1999
The World According to Wavelets
Reviewed by David Jerison October 1999
Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories
Reviewed by Colin Adams September 1999
Knowing And Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States
Reviewed by Roger Howe September 1999
Proofs from THE BOOK
Reviewed by Daniel H. Ullman August 1999
The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari
Reviewed by Rick Durrett June/July 1999
strength in Numbers
Reviewed by Giuliana Davidoff May 1999
Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images
Reviewed by Ed Dubinsky May 1999
Review of Noncommutative Geometry by Alain Connes
Reviewed by Vaughan Jones and Henri Moscovici August 1997
Review of BBC's Horizon Program, "Fermat's Last Theorem"
Reviewed by Andrew Granville January 1997
Theater Review: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
Reviewed by Allyn Jackson November 1995
Eating Humble Pi: A Book Review
Reviewed by Conrad Plaut July/August 1995