Volume 36, Number 4 · March 16, 1989
Beauty in Numbers
By Martin Gardner
Mathematics: The New Golden Age
by Keith Devlin
Penguin, 287 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
by William Poundstone
Doubleday/Anchor, 274 pp., $18.95
The front cover of Keith Devlin's Penguin paperback is a dazzling computer image reproduced from a Springer Verlag book, The Beauty of Fractals. If it looks familiar it's because you've seen it on the front cover of James Gleick's recent best seller, Chaos, published by Viking. Two books with identical covers are rare enough, but to make things worse, Viking is now owned by Penguin. I take this blunder to reflect the chaos that develops when big publishing houses merge.
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