Math 629: History of Mathematics
Frank Sottile


The book review (due February 12)


You will need to both email a .pdf to me at fjsteachmath@gmail.com, as well as to turnitin.com. Here is the information for our class:
Math 629 History of Mathematics     Class ID: 23869119     Class Enrollment Key: Sottile629
I keep forgetting the following: Please make your review double-spaced (acrtually 1.3 or 1.5 will do), also 12 pt type for my old eyes, and a running head with your name and finally, page numbers. Thanks.
Your first paper is a review of a book that contains both a nontrivial amount of history and a nontrivial amount of mathematics.
Note that a book review is not a paper on the book, or even just a summaary. I encourage you to look up some reviews of books (not on-line reviews, but those published in newspapers and magazines) to help you gain an idea of what constitutes a review.
There are many (perhaps too many) possibilities. This could be, for example This is by no means exhaustive, even of the types of books that are available. I just went through the list of books in my library and picked out a few (of about 50 on history and biography) that are representative. I have read all of these sometime in the past 35 years. More extensive lists appear on the course pages of my predecessors, I would prefer that you each choose different books. I am keeping track of this on my page.
A list of specialty online bookstores is on Fulling's Links page.
Some of these books may be available from a local library or through other electronic resources.
Please let me know (short email to fjsteachmath@gmail.com or via Piazza) which book you plan to review. We can also discuss this. Get to this soon, as I would prefer people to each choose different books, and your favourite might get selected.

Further:
Special Thanks to Prof. Fulling, whose page this is based upon
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