Jim Holt

Jim Holt writes about science and philosophy for The New Yorker, Slate, and other publications. (May 2003)

Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved by Robin Wilson

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, with an introduction and notes by Ian Stewart

Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart

Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe by Michel Blay, Translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R. Everdell

Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, a Personal and Mathematical Odyssey by Joseph Warren Dauben

Non-standard Analysis by Abraham Robinson