My new book has come out this week: Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions, Hill and Wang, xi+269 pages, $25. ISBN-10: 0-8090-5219-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-5219-9, Library of Congress Call Number: T185.H39 2008.
This is a collection of essays on themes that will be familiar to many readers of bit-player.org. Indeed, the essays themselves […]
Investors are constantly checking the stock ticker, gamblers check the point spread, and everybody is forever checking their e-mail. For a writerly type like me, however, the unshakeable obsession is checking my Amazon sales rank. Amazon.com calculates a sales rank for every book listed on its Web site, and updates the ranking hourly. Here’s a […]
For those who’ve been waiting patiently… My book Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape is just out in paperback. Except for the cover and the price, it’s identical to the hard-cover edition (errors and all!). Statistics:
characters: 1,302,389
words: 219,748
sentences: 10,940
pages: 541
photographs: 735
weight: 4.6 pounds
dimensions: 10.3 x 10.3 x 1.2 inches
list price: $49.95 (US) hardbound, […]
A few years ago Michael Berry revealed that his first choice in reading matter, if he were stranded on a desert island, would be Abramowitz and Stegun, also known as Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, published by the National Bureau of Standards in 1964. For those of you seeking lighter […]
“To those interested in the effective visual communication of quantitative phenomena, William Playfair’s Atlas is like the Bible: an ancient and revered book that is often cited but rarely read.”
—Howard Wainer and Ian Spence
The Commercial and Political Atlas is rarely read simply because it’s rare. Playfair published three versions of the book between 1786 and […]