Volume 91 | Number 2 | March-April 2003
Eric Swanson
The Particle Odyssey is a richly illustrated survey of experimental developments and evolving theories in particle physics.
Steve Kennedy
In The Millennium Problems, Keith Devlin tries to describe in lay terms "The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time." But no nonmathematician is going to even understand whey they're important, let alone win the million-dollar prize for solving one.
Stephan Mertens
Linked: The New Science of Networks, by Albert-László Barabási, offers a fresh and inspiring view of complex systems.
Anthony Grafton
Dick Teresi's new book on the non-Western roots of modern science, Lost Discoveries, poses as revisionist history while preaching to the choir.
D. Graham Burnett
In The Measure of All Things, Ken Alder uses the story of how the meter was created to press a set of broader assertions about what science is and how it has changed in the past three centuries.
Karen Steudel Numbers, Ronald Numbers
David Sloan Wilson argues in Darwin's Cathedral that religions are the product of natural selection.
Brian Hayes
Fractal patterns formed by turning circles inside out are explored in Indra's Pearls.
David Goodstein
In The Hydrogen Economy, Jeremy Rifkin correctly identifies our biggest problem, but the book isn't part of the solution.
Scott Mandelbrote
Patricia Fara's Newton: The Making of a Genius depicts the transformation of Newton's image and reputation over the centuries by philosophers, poets, artists, scientists and bureaucrats.
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