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Etudes for programmers
ADVANCES INMATHEMATICS
29,270(1978)
Book R. M.
SMULLYAN,
(As a courtesy blank.)
The Tao Is Silent,
to the uninitiated,
Reviews Harper
we remark
& Row,
that
1977,
the above
225 pp.
space is unintentionally
left
J. E. GRAVER AND M. E. WATKINS, Combinatorics with Emphasis on the Theory of Graphs, Springer, 1977, 351 pp. An exceptionally complete introduction to combinatorics, written in the unified, abstract, systematic, but now and then procrustean style of Nicholas Bourbaki. C. WETHERELL, Etudes for Programmers, Prentice-Hall, 1978, 200 pp. This honest, practical, and balanced textbook manages to convey not only the discipline but also the giddy exhilaration of computer programming; a book a hacker would not be ashamed to own. C. H. C. LITTLE Notes in Mathematics, well down-under. R. V. CHURCHILL ed., McGraw-Hill,
(Ed.), Combinatorial Vol. 622, Springer,
Mathematics V, Melbourne, 1977, 213 pp. Combinatorics
AND J. W. BROWN, Fourier Series and Boundary 271 pp. An updated edition of a classic text.
S. FIORINI AND R. J. WILSON, Edge-Colourings matics 16, Pitman, 1977, 154 pp, A lucid and but neglected branch of graph theory.
of Graphs. comprehensive
1976, Lecture is alive and
Value
Research survey
Problems,
3rd
Notes in Matheof an important
H. H. GOLDSTINE, A History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th through the 19th Century, Springer, 1977, 348 pp; C. C. HEYDE AND E. SENETA, I. J. Bienayme: Statistical Theory Anticipated, Springer, 1977, 175 pp. Mathematicians are, after all, the major consumers of history of mathematics, a fact which historians of mathematics often forget. These two books--the first, an account of numerical analysis so clear that it may be used as a textbook; the second, an important contribution to the genealogy of genealogy -are delightful examples of how to write rekant history. Modern mathematicians would find them useful introductions to the works of the old masters. GIAN-CARLO
ROTA Editor
270 OOOl-8708/78/0292-0270$05.00/0 Copyright All rights
0 1978 by Academic Press, Inc. of reproduction in any form reserved.
29,270(1978)
Book R. M.
SMULLYAN,
(As a courtesy blank.)
The Tao Is Silent,
to the uninitiated,
Reviews Harper
we remark
& Row,
that
1977,
the above
225 pp.
space is unintentionally
left
J. E. GRAVER AND M. E. WATKINS, Combinatorics with Emphasis on the Theory of Graphs, Springer, 1977, 351 pp. An exceptionally complete introduction to combinatorics, written in the unified, abstract, systematic, but now and then procrustean style of Nicholas Bourbaki. C. WETHERELL, Etudes for Programmers, Prentice-Hall, 1978, 200 pp. This honest, practical, and balanced textbook manages to convey not only the discipline but also the giddy exhilaration of computer programming; a book a hacker would not be ashamed to own. C. H. C. LITTLE Notes in Mathematics, well down-under. R. V. CHURCHILL ed., McGraw-Hill,
(Ed.), Combinatorial Vol. 622, Springer,
Mathematics V, Melbourne, 1977, 213 pp. Combinatorics
AND J. W. BROWN, Fourier Series and Boundary 271 pp. An updated edition of a classic text.
S. FIORINI AND R. J. WILSON, Edge-Colourings matics 16, Pitman, 1977, 154 pp, A lucid and but neglected branch of graph theory.
of Graphs. comprehensive
1976, Lecture is alive and
Value
Research survey
Problems,
3rd
Notes in Matheof an important
H. H. GOLDSTINE, A History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th through the 19th Century, Springer, 1977, 348 pp; C. C. HEYDE AND E. SENETA, I. J. Bienayme: Statistical Theory Anticipated, Springer, 1977, 175 pp. Mathematicians are, after all, the major consumers of history of mathematics, a fact which historians of mathematics often forget. These two books--the first, an account of numerical analysis so clear that it may be used as a textbook; the second, an important contribution to the genealogy of genealogy -are delightful examples of how to write rekant history. Modern mathematicians would find them useful introductions to the works of the old masters. GIAN-CARLO
ROTA Editor
270 OOOl-8708/78/0292-0270$05.00/0 Copyright All rights
0 1978 by Academic Press, Inc. of reproduction in any form reserved.