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Computability and Complexity

This book provides an introduction to the theory of computation. It is aimed primarily at undergraduate computer science students who are comfortable with mathematical notation, definitions and proofs, and especially with reading a detailed mathematical presentation. The author also intends his book to be useful to others in disciplines that depend in some way on...

Analytic Number Theory for Beginners

Analytic Number Theory for Beginners by Prapanpong Pongsriiam covers a lot of material in under 400 pages. It is primarily a graduate textbook. It could be used as an undergraduate text: roughly speaking the first third of the book is undergraduate material and the remaining two thirds is graduate-level material, but the writing is a bit terse for an undergraduate text....

Algebraic Curves and Surfaces

The geometry of algebraic curves and surfaces is a wide and venerable subject, and there are many monographs and textbooks aimed to graduate students and experienced researchers. The novelties of the book under review include a historical overview of the classification theorem of algebraic surfaces, from the classical results of the Italian school of Castelnuovo and Enriques to the methods of the French...

The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era

This volume is just one in the Springer series, Mathematics in the Digital Era, of which 22 have been published since 2012. This particular volume, published in 2022, is said to be the second edition of an earlier volume with a similar title, but different subtitle (The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era: An International Perspective...

Introduction to Traveling Waves

The authors wrote this book to provide students with enough background to study traveling waves and simultaneously enable them to develop some research experience of their own in that area. They had found that very little published material on traveling waves was accessible to students at the undergraduate and masters level. Accordingly, they prepared a...

The Calculus of Braids

This book is intended as an introductory braid theory textbook. It begins with a chapter modelizingbraids, from both geometric and algebraic perspectives, and setting out the braid isotopy problem, i.e. given two braids (in either diagram or braid word form), can we determine whether they represent braids isotopic to each other? Chapter 2 introduces the braid group 𝐵𝑛Bn, along...

Divided Spheres: Geodesics and the Orderly Subdivision of the Sphere

George Bernard Shaw once observed that “the British and Americans are two great peoples divided by a common tongue”. Having read several of Buckminster Fuller’s books on Synergetics as well as being trained to write professional mathematics, this reviewer previously concluded that the same was true for design thinkers and mathematicians. And yet they often...

Advanced Problem Solving Using Maple

Subtitled “Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Business Analytics, and Decision Analysis”, this book is the second volume of two. (The first was reviewed here). The title of the current book only differs from the title of the prior book by replacing “With MAPLE” for the first volume by “Using MAPLE” for the second. It is confusing, but...

Counterexamples in Measure and Integration

In Counterexamples in Measure and Integration, Schilling and Kühn create an excellent reference text and companion reader for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of measure theory. As we all know, and as the text explicitly states, students of mathematics will “gain a better understanding of a theorem or theory if [they know] its limitations...

Excursions in Multiplicative Number Theory

The subject matter of this book is arithmetic functions (that is, functions deﬁned on the positive integers), and usually multiplicative functions (arithmetic functions ff that satisfy f(mn)=f(m)f(n)f(mn)=f(m)f(n) when mm and nn are relatively prime). Multiplicative number theory is closely related to prime number theory. The focus in this book is primarily on developing asymptotic average values of multiplicative functions. This is not a comprehensive book, but it does touch on...

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