New Book Received: 50 Visions of Mathematics. By Sam Parc, Oxford University Press, 2014; 198 Pages. Price $ 44.95, ISBN 978 0 19870 181 1
12 May 2014
The book is a collection of 50 original essays contributed by a wide variety of authors. It contains articles by some of the best expositors of the subject (du Sautoy, Singh and Stewart for example) together with entertaining biographical pieces and articles of relevance to our everyday lives (such as Spiegelhalter on risk and Elwes on medical imaging). The topics covered are deliberately diverse and involve concepts from simple numerology to the very cutting edge of mathematics research. Each article is designed to be read in one sitting and to be accessible to a general audience.