These notes have the status of letters written to ourselves: we wrote them down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making up new arguments over and over again. So began the abstract of our earlier paper Notes on Postmodern Programming. We now revisit the issue of postmodern programming, and attempt to address some of the questions raised by our exposition. To illustrate the nature of...

This article offers an overview of musical nationalism. It considers how states have used music as a political tool well the ways in which communities employed to reject national identities and challenge nation-states.

edited by José Ferreirós and Jeremy Gray Oxford University Press, 2006, 442 pp. $ 69.50 US, ISBN 0198567936 REVIEWED BY ANDREW ARANA This collection of essays explores what makes modern mathematics ‘modern’, where ‘modern mathematics’ is understood as the mathematics done in the West from roughly 1800 to 1970. This is not the trivial matter of exploring what makes recent mathematics recent. The...