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SIAM Review / Volume 54 / Issue 1

SIAM Rev. 54, pp. 181-208 (28 pages)

Book Reviews

Bob O'Malley, Section Editor

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Even long-time readers of SIAM Review may wonder what a featured review is. I, too, sometimes wonder. Occasionally, two or three related books are reviewed simultaneously. More often, the objective is to highlight an important new book or topic. It takes planning to arrange such a review for each issue. Sometimes other deserving books appear in the meantime or a lovely review or two will be otherwise submitted.

For this issue, I asked Jim Simmonds to write a featured review of Audoly and Pomeau's Elasticity and Geometry: From Hair Curls to the Non-Linear Response of Shells. As reported, it features very novel applications and a remarkable combination of physical insight and analytical adeptness. Roy's brilliant new monograph on Sources in the Development of Mathematics appears to be so central to our understanding of calculus that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to highlight it as well.

The issue also includes reviews by long-time favorite authors on such diverse subjects as boundary elements, combinatorics, classical analysis, discrete integrable systems, dynamical systems, estimation, fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, and probability and stochastics. As always, our expert reviewers deserve our thanks and attention.