Book Review: Mathematics in population biology

Book Review: Mathematics for Physicists

A book review on Mathematics for Physicists This new book by B. R. Martin and G. Shaw [1] is part of the Manchester Physics Series, a long-established set of elementary texbooks aimed primarily at providing undergraduate physics students (but also students in other physical sciences, such as astronomy, chemistry, earth and planetary science, etc.) with relatively short, self-contained courses o...

Book review: Summing up mathematics teacher education

This review examines two recent collective publications that set out to survey and synthesise knowledge in the field of mathematics teacher education. Both allude to the timeliness of such an enterprise given the growth and institutionalisation of research in this field since the early to mid 1990s. They feature an extensive (and often overlapping) authorship drawn from active researchers in th...

Book Review: Python Programming for Biology

Python is an excellent language for scientists and can be used at many levels: Simple scripts for quick and dirty calculations, big programs implementing complex data models, taking advantage of its powerful libraries for number crunching or simply as “glue” to bind together more specialized modules written in C or Fortran. Such a versatility may be an obstacle to find an entry point for the ne...

Book Review: Systems and Synthetic Biology

Book Review... Casting Light on the Other: Women in Mathematics

In Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference, Henrion (1997) attempted to understand the culture of the mathematical community and its associated set of beliefs and norms. In particular, her intent was to identify and examine how the culture of the mathematical community influences women who choose to work in it. In order to highlight women's experiences in mathematics and to capture the...