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From the Archives: Super Crunchers: Why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart by Ian Ayres
Posted by John Dupuis on April 10, 2011 I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I’m going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I’ll mostly be doing the posts one or two per…
The house that calculus built
Posted by John Dupuis on February 7, 2011 Or make that the house that the house that Calculus: Early Transcendentals and Calculus: Concepts and Contexts built. And more books too, all in multiple editions! A few days ago The Toronto Star‘s Katie Daubs published an article on the home of James Stewart, the Toronto resident who wrote all those calculus textbooks. James Stewart…
From the Archives: King of infinite space: Donald Coxeter, the man who saved geometry by Siobhan Roberts
Posted by John Dupuis on December 12, 2010 I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I’m going to be slowly moving the relevant reviews over here. I’ll mostly be doing the posts one or two per…
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna
Posted by John Dupuis on November 9, 2009 As graphic novels go, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is every bit as good as Maus or Watchmen, if not quite as game-changing. The only other things out there that I can think of that are similar are Chester Brown’s Louis Riel or Ho Che Anderson’s King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King,…
