Book reviews

Charles Phillips and Melanie Frances, A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Analytical Engine (Ammonite Press, 2022)

Mathematics Today 59(1) (February 2023), 33.

Aleksandra Ravas and Dragana Stošić Miljković (eds.), COVIDiary of Mathematicians (Mathematical Society Archimedes, Belgrade, 2021)

London Mathematical Society Newsletter, no. 503 (November 2022), pp. 38–39.

Mircea Pitici (ed.), The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020 (Princeton University Press, 2020)

IMA Book Reviews (posted online, August 2022)

David E. Zitarelli, A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada: Volume 1: 1492–1900 (American Mathematical Society, 2019)

London Mathematical Society Newsletter, no. 497 (November 2021), 41–42.

Francis Su, Mathematics for human flourishing (Yale University Press, 2020)

Mathematics Today 57(5) (October 2021), 200–201.

Edward B. Burger, Making Up Your Own Mind: Thinking Effectively through Creative Puzzle-Solving (Princeton University Press, 2019)

Mathematics Today 56(6) (December 2020), 250

David Rowe, A richer picture of mathematics: the Göttingen tradition and beyond (Springer, 2018)

British Journal for the History of Mathematics 35(1) (2020), 87–89

Benjamin Wardhaugh, Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel (William Collins, 2019)

London Mathematical Society Newsletter, no. 486 (January 2020), 47–48

Janet Beery, Sarah Greenwald, Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin and Maura B. Mast (eds.), Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (Springer, 2017)

Mathematics Today 55(5) (October 2019), 212

Craig P. Bauer, Unsolved! The history and mystery of the world's greatest ciphers from ancient Egypt to online secret societies (Princeton University Press, 2017)

Mathematics Today 55(4) (August 2019), 163

David Singmaster, Problems for metagrobologists: a collection of puzzles with real mathematical, logical or scientific content (World Scientific, 2016)

Mathematics Today 54(4) (August 2018), 173

Frédéric Brechenmacher, Guillaume Jouve, Laurent Mazliak and Rossana Tazzioli (eds.), Images of Italian mathematics in France: the Latin sisters, from Risorgimento to fascism (Birkhäuser, 2016)

BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 33(2) (2018), 139–141

Sergei S. Demidov and Boris V. Lëvshin, The case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, translation from the Russian by Roger Cooke (American Mathematical Society, 2016)

BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 33(1) (2018), 59–61

Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel, My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count (Springer, 2016)

Isis 108(3) (2017), 744–745

Mircea Pitici (ed.), The best writing on mathematics 2015 (Princeton University Press, 2016)

Mathematics Today 53(4) (August 2017), 186

Alex Bellos and Edmund Harriss, Visions of numberland (Bloomsbury, 2016)

Mathematics Today 53(3) (June 2017), 132

Dermot Turing, Prof: Alan Turing Decoded (The History Press, 2015)

Mathematics Today 53(2) (April 2017), 86

Leo Corry, A brief history of numbers (OUP, 2015)

Mathematics Today 52(6) (December 2016), 301–302

Slava Gerovitch, Soviet space mythologies: public images, private memories, and the making of a cultural identity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)

British Journal for the History of Science 49(3) (2016), 516–517

Martin Gardner, Undiluted hocus-pocus: the autobiography of Martin Gardner (Princeton University Press, 2013)

Mathematics Today 52(2) (April 2016), 102

Roman Duda, Pearls from a lost city: the Lvov school of mathematics (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2014)

British Journal for the History of Science 49(1) (2016), 141–143

Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall, Taming the unknown: a history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century (Princeton University Press, 2014)

British Journal for the History of Science 48(4) (2015), 687–689

Mircea Pitici (ed.), The best writing on mathematics 2014 (Princeton University Press, 2015)

Mathematics Today 51(6) (December 2015), 311–312

David Reimer, Count like an Egyptian: a hands-on introduction to ancient mathematics (Princeton University Press, 2014)

IMA Book Reviews (posted online, April 2015)

David Rogers, Top secret: British boffins in World War One (Helion & Company Ltd, 2013)

Mathematics Today 51(2) (April 2015), 87

Ilona Svetlikova, The Moscow Pythagoreans: mathematics, mysticism, and anti-Semitism in Russian symbolism (Palgrave, 2013)

BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 30(1) (2015), 85–86

Mircea Pitici (ed.), The best writing on mathematics 2013 (Princeton University Press, 2014)

Mathematics Today 50(6) (December 2014), 319

Scott L. Montgomery, Does science need a global language? (Chicago University Press, Chicago and London, 2013)

British Journal for the History of Science 47(4) (2014), 760–762

Anthony Lo Bello, Origins of Mathematical Words: A Comprehensive Dictionary of Latin, Greek and Arabic Roots (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)

IMA Book Reviews (posted online, October 2014)

Robin Wilson and John J. Watkins (eds.), Combinatorics: ancient & modern (OUP, 2013)

BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 29(2) (2014), 144–145

Fernando Q. Gouvêa, A guide to groups, rings, and fields (MAA, 2012)

IMA Book Reviews (posted online, February 2014)

Glen van Brummelen, Heavenly mathematics: the forgotten art of spherical trigonometry (Princeton University Press, 2013)

IMA Book Reviews (posted online, December 2013)

Audra J. Wolfe, Competing with the Soviets: Science, technology, and the state in Cold War America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)

British Journal for the History of Science 46(4) (2013), 729–731

Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, Math goes to the movies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)

Mathematics Today 49(5) (October 2013), 233

Martin Erickson, Beautiful mathematics (MAA, 2011)

Mathematics Today 49(2) (April 2013), 97

Karl Gustafson, The crossing of heaven: memoirs of a mathematician (Springer, 2012)

Mathematics Today 49(2) (April 2013), 96

Michèle Audin, Fatou, Julia, Montel: The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and beyond (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2014, Springer, 2011)

BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 27(2) (2012), 127–128