Recent Books

Recent Books in Regulation

Reviews of Recent Books

The structure of this book is an interesting variant on familiar text-books of psychology. After a brief introductory chapter on the subject-matter and methods of the science, the student is plunged at once into the technical field of animal psychology. The author admits in his preface that this chapter is " the least well rounded and comprehensive "; and this is true. It is so because many of ...

Recent books edited

B. Beckman: Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish Crypto Program during World War II, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 2002, 259 pp., $39, ISBN 0-8218-2889-4 All stories about cryptanalytical work prior and during the World War II read like a thriller. The book under review is no exception. The author, the former head of the cryptanalytical section of FRA (The Radio Agency of th...

Recent Books Received

Two Recent Books on Algebras

theory, the relation of hypercomplex numbers to quadric surfaces, abelian integrals, etc. Moreover, as will be seen below, the book would have gained both in power and charm if the second part had been compressed. Part I, on the general theory of number fields (130 pages) is divided into three chapters. Of these, the first gives the definition of a number field via four postulates, the rudiment...