Jim Holt writes about science and philosophy. His latest book, Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, is out now in paperback.
(May 2013)
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He Conceived the Mathematics of Roughness
May 23, 2013
The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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Who Gets Credit for the Computer?: An Exchange
September 27, 2012
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How the Computers Exploded
June 7, 2012
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by George Dyson
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A Comedy of Colors
May 29, 2003
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved
by Robin Wilson
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Geometrical Creatures
December 19, 2002
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
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Infinitesimally Yours
May 20, 1999
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