Book Review: Analytic Geometry and Calculus

Quasicrystals and geometry: a Book Review

Penrose tilings (Fig. 1) are beautiful. They also suggest significant new mathematics, so it is about time someone wrote a book about them which is readable (in fact, eminently readable) by mathematicians. The book, Quasicrystals and geometry, by Marjorie Senechal, has an even broader goal: to present certain developments in crystallography from the past decade. The developments were generated ...

Book review: The Calculus of Selfishness, by Karl Sigmund

Leading game theorist Karl Sigmund calls his latest book The Calculus of Selfishness, although arguably The Calculus of Cooperation would have been an equally suitable title. The central problem is this: How can cooperation, or even altruism, come about in a population of selfish individuals? We see plenty of cooperation around us, most prominently in human societies but also within other speci...

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Book Review: 'Ecolinguistics: Language and ecology'

Ecolinguistics: language and ecology delivers an overall view and a critical approach on ecolinguistic studies. This book is an excellent resource to students, researchers, linguists and those working in the area of discourse analysis as well as ecology. The book claims presenting a news course for ecolinguistics including a framework for understanding the theory of ecolinguistics, exploration ...

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