July 2024 Issue Jonathan Egid Algebra & Other Idle Pursuits A Summer with Pascal By Antoine Compagnon (Translated from French by Catherine Porter)
November 2022 Issue Simon Briscoe Damned Statistics Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers By Georgina Sturge LR
April 2022 Issue Tim Smith-Laing What Are the Odds? Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations By David Flusfeder Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk By DBC Pierre LR
September 2019 Issue Manjit Kumar Coming Full Circle Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus – The Language of the Universe By Steven Strogatz LR
June 2019 Issue Simon Briscoe Stat Craft The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data By David Spiegelhalter LR
May 2019 Issue Andrew Crumey Fine Figures The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets By Graham Farmelo LR
February 2019 Issue John Gribbin Of Coal & Calculus Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton – Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel By Benjamin Wardhaugh LR
July 1997 Issue George Stern Useful Occupations Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years By Simon Singh Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem By Amir D Aczel LR
March 2016 Issue John Banville Sympathy for the Bedevilled The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother By Ulinka Rublack LR
April 2015 Issue Andrew Crumey Go Forth & Multiply Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure By Cédric Villani (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise) LR
March 2015 Issue Jonathan Rée To Infinities & Beyond Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation By Michael Harris LR
July 2010 Issue Jonathan Beckman Eucliding Me? Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics By Alex Bellos LR
July 2008 Issue David Singmaster Here’s Looking at Euclid Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life By Robin Wilson LR
July 2007 Issue Alexander Masters Igum and Igibum Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra By John Derbyshire LR
December 2012 Issue Patricia Fara You Do the Math Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain By Benjamin Wardhaugh LR
March 2013 Issue David Collard The Philosopher’s Philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903–1930): A Sister’s Memoir By Margaret Paul LR
February 2014 Issue Christopher Bray The Sumpsons The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets By Simon Singh LR
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