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New Books: recent acquisitions in Mathematics

This is of recently catalogued print books purchased on the Mathematics reporting fund or of probable interest but purchased from another fund. This list is normally updated & replaced monthly. See also: previous month's list || 2012 (so far)
New books from other recent years are at All acquisitions in Mathematics

Added 01 -- 31 March 2012

GENERAL LIBRARY
201.65 D39     Science and religion: are they compatible? / Daniel C. Dennett, Alvin Plantinga. (Point/counterpoint series (Oxford, England)) -- Oxford University Press, 2011. [Philosophy]
303.483 K623     Science in a democratic society / Philip Kitcher. -- Prometheus Books, 2011. [Science general]
378.12130973 S37     Lost soul of higher education: corporatization, the assault on academic freedom, and the end of the American university / Ellen Schrecker. -- New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010. [Science general]
510 A51     Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society. #1015-1018 -- American Mathematical Society, 2012[Mathematics]
510 S611     Rediscovering mathematics: you do the math / Shai Simonson. (Classroom resource materials) -- Mathematical Association of America, 2011. [Mathematics]
510.722 R88     Sources in the development of mathematics: infinite series and products from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / Ranjan Roy. -- Cambridge University Press, 2011. — Reviewed: MR2807493; 1228.01001 [Mathematics]
511.34 V11     Models and games / Jouko Vaananen. (Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics ; 132) -- Cambridge University Press, 2011. [Mathematics]
514.23 B49     Introduction to Galois cohomology and its applications / by Gregory Berhuy. (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 377) -- Cambridge University Press, 2010. — Reviewed: 2011i:12010; 1207.12003 [Mathematics]
515.42 P19     On generators of shy sets in Polish groups / Gogi Pantsulaia. (Mathematics research developments series) -- Nova Science Publishers, 2011. [Mathematics]
515.7 G21     Handbook of nonconvex analysis and applications / edited by David Yang Gao and Dumitru Motreanu. -- International Press, 2010. — Reviewed: 2012d:49001; 1217.49001 [Mathematics]
516 A52     Introduction to differential geometry / K.S. Amur, D.J. Shetty, C.S. Bagewadi. -- Alpha Science International, 2010. — Reviewed: 1210.53001 [Mathematics]
518.5 W72     Design of approximation algorithms / David P. Williamson, David B. Shmoys. -- Cambridge University Press, 2011. — Reviewed: MR2798112 (in process); 1219.90004 [Mathematics]
520.94 W53     Copernican question: prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order / Robert S. Westman. -- University of California Press, 2011. [Physics]
530.12 H39     Dreams that stuff is made of: the most astounding papers on quantum physics-- and how they shook the scientific world / edited, with an introduction, by Stephen Hawking. -- Running Press, 2011. [Philosophy]
531 S76     Physics for mathematicians: mechanics I / Michael Spivak. -- Publish or Perish, 2010. — Reviewed: MR2761185; pre05881236 [Mathematics]
532.05270151 K18     Nonlinear resonance analysis: theory, computation, applications / Elena Kartashova. -- Cambridge University Press, 2011. — Reviewed: 2012e:3700; 1211.70001 [Mathematics]
576.82 D22Vso     Did Darwin write the Origin backwards?: philosophical essays on Darwin's theory / Elliott Sober. -- Prometheus Books, 2011. [Science general]
793.85 D53     Magical mathematics: the mathematical ideas that animate great magic tricks / Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham ; with a foreword by Martin Gardner. -- Princeton University Press, 2012. — Reviewed: MR2858033 (in process); 1230.00009 [Mathematics]
808.042 M25     Writing for conferences: a handbook for graduate students and faculty / Leo Mallette and Clare Berger. -- Greenwood, 2011. [Applied Language Studies]
Engineering Library
QA184.2 .L39 2012     Linear algebra and its applications / David C. Lay. 4th ed. Addison-Wesley, 2012
QA402.5 .B655 2012     Computational optimization of systems governed by partial differential equations / Alfio Borzi, Volker Schulz. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2012
QA43 .I38 2011     IIT mathematics : topic-wise solved questions since 1978. Tata McGraw Hill Education, 2011
Epsom Library
370.72 MCM 2010     Research in education : evidence-based inquiry / James H. McMillan, Sally Schumacher. 7th ed. Pearson, 2010
370.72 NEW     Research methods for education / Peter Newby. Pearson Education Limited, 2010
507.1 ESP     Nature of science : integrating historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives / Fernando Espinoza. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012
510.7 GOU     Little book of maths outdoors / by Terry Gould ; illustrations by Mike Phillips. A&C Black, 2011
510.71 MAH     Mental maths : building understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning / Peter Maher. Macmillan Education Australia, 2010
510.9 BOY 2011     History of mathematics / Uta C. Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer. 3rd ed. Wiley, 2011 (Previous edition in Gen library)
Tamaki Library
509.2 N27     Helmholtz : from enlightenment to neuroscience / Michel Meulders ; translated and edited by Laurence Garey. MIT Press, 2010