Math Library News

Journal issues received Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Annales Polonici mathematici v.95 no.1 & no.2

Changes coming for math library services

The mathematics library will be closing this summer.  Most of the paper collection will move to Olin Library. While no one is happy about this, I hope you will find that the collection continues to be accessible, although certainly a bit less convenient, and services that you need continue to be available.  Ruth Lewis will still be the math librarian; phone or email continues to be the best way to find me.  I plan to keep you updated on changes using this blog.  Please do contact me with your library questions, concerns and suggestions!

Ruth Lewis  email: rlewis@wustl.edu  phone: 935-4819

Technical Computing with MATLAB in Life Sciences, July 22 free seminar

Free seminar at WU Medical Campus, pre-registration recommended but not required.  For more information see http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/wu0709

Wolfram Alpha site launched

A Calculating Web Site Could Ignite a New Campus 'Math War' - Wolfram Alpha is making lots of news this month. Wolfram Alpha examples is a useful intro I think | 13 minute online tutorial | New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google (New York Times) | Wolfram|Alpha has arrived. Now what's it good for? (60-second science blog, Scientific American) | Search Me: Inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram's new "computational knowledge engine" (Technology Review)

Math-related ebooks, June 2009

From Springer:
The Dirac Spectrum Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1976
Lectures on Topological Fluid Mechanics Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1973
Analysis and Design of Discrete Part Production Lines Optimization and Its Applications 31
Continuous Bivariate Distributions
Continuous-time Stochastic Control and Optimization with Financial Applications Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability 61
Encyclopedia of Distances
Explorations in Harmonic Analysis Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
Fractional Differentiation Inequalities
Gröbner Bases, Coding, and Cryptography
Handbook of Applied Analysis Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics 19
Implementing Spectral Methods for Partial Differential Equations Scientific Computation
Introductory Time Series with R Use R!
Minimax Systems and Critical Point Theory
Potential Theory Universitext
Ricerca Operativa UNITEXT
Traffic and Granular Flow '07
Tropical Algebraic Geometry Oberwolfach Seminars 35
A Primer of Ecology with R
Viability Theory Modern Birkhäuser Classics

From SciTechNetBase:
Lean Six Sigma in Service
ROC Curves for Continuous Data
Hidden Markov Models for Time Series
Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R
Malliavin Calculus with Applications to Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Applications of Group Theory to Combinatorics

From Sage and ScienceDirect:
Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods (2008)
Handbook of Differential Equations, v.1-4 2000-2008

Miscellaneous others:
Mathematical methods in quantum mechanics : with applications to Schrödinger operators; print copy also available
Toposes, triples, and theories; print copy also available
Principal works [of] Simon Stevin, v.2A Mathematics, v.2B Mathematics; Print copy also available

Publications from WU math department, June 2009

• Leopold SR, Magrini V, Holt NJ, Shaikh N, Mardis ER, Cagno J, Ogura Y, Iguchi A, Hayashi T, Mellmann A, Karch H, Besser TE, Sawyer SA, Whittam TS, Tarr PI. 2009. A precise reconstruction of the emergence and constrained radiations of Escherichia coli O157 portrayed by backbone concatenomic analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(21):8713-8. PubMed abstract & fulltext for subscribers, free 6 months after publication.
• Tang X, Yao YJ. 2009. A universal deformation formula for H-1 without projectivity assumption. J Noncommutative Geom 3(2):151-179. Abstract & fulltext for subscribers [WU does not subscribe].
• Woodroofe R. 2009. Cubical Convex Ear Decompositions. Electronic J Combinatorics 16(2):Art. No. R17.Abstract & free fulltext.

New books June 28, 2009+

Math New Books will be on display for two weeks at the Math library. New books are available to borrow after the display is changed. If you wish to reserve a new book, then please write your name on the slip in the back of the book.

Generalized bialgebras and triples of operads / Jean-Louis Loday.

Abstract algebra / Ronald Solomon.

Geometry for college students / I. Martin Isaacs.

Topics in number theory / Minking Eie.

Introduction to Fourier analysis and wavelets / Mark A. Pinsky.

Archimedes, the center of gravity, and the first law of mechanics / Andre K.T. Assis.

Groups of diffeomorphisms : in honor of Shigeyuki Morita on the occasion of his 60th birthday / edited by Robert Penner ... [et al.].

Hamiltonian systems and their integrability / Michèle Audin ; translated by Anna Pierrehumbert ; translation edited by Donald Babbitt.

Introduction to derivative-free optimization / Andrew R. Conn, Katya Scheinberg, Luis N. Vicente.

Introduction to interval analysis / Ramon E. Moore, R. Baker Kearfott, Michael J. Cloud.

Complex valued nonlinear adaptive filters : noncircularity, widely linear and neural models / Danilo P. Mandic, Vanessa Su Lee Goh.

Ottawa lectures on admissible representations of reductive p-adic groups

The mathematics of the heavens and the earth : the early history of trigonometry

Running regressions : a practical guide to quantitative research in economics, finance and development studies

ROC curves for continuous data

New books approx. June 16-26, 2009

Analysis in vector spaces : a course in advanced Akcoglu, Mustafa A. QA186 .A33 2009

Combinatorics : the Rota way Kung, Joseph P. S. QA164 .K86 2009

Hilbert transforms. Vol. 1 King, Frederick W., 1947 QA432 .K56 2009

Low dimensional topology QA611.3 .L677 2009

Mathematical constants Finch, Steven R., 1959- QA41 .F54 2003

Modeling and reasoning with Bayesian networks Darwiche, Adnan, 1966- QA279.5 .D37 2009

Toeplitz forms and their applications Grenander, Ulf. QA201 .G77 2001

Journal Issues June 24, 2009

Expositiones Mathematicae v.27 no.3
Houston Journal of Mathematics v.35 no.2
Crux Mathematicorum v.35 no.3

Best Sellers in Mathematics

Best Sellers in Mathematics -- from Library Journal, 6/18/2009. Titles are linked to local catalogs when available.
1) Princeton Companion to Mathematics Gowers, Timothy Princeton University Press 2008. ISBN 0691118809 [9780691118802]. $99
2) Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology Richeson, David S. Princeton University Press 2008. ISBN 0691126771 [9780691126777]. $27.95
3) Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry Van Brummelen, Glen Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691129738 [9780691129730]. $39.50
4) Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern Devlin, Keith J. Basic Books 2008. ISBN 0465009107 [9780465009107]. $24.95
5) Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life Fisher, Len Basic Books 2008. ISBN 0465009387 [9780465009381]. $15.95
6) Plato’s Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics Gray, Jeremy Princeton University Press 2008. ISBN 0691136106 [9780691136103]. $45
7) What Is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins Tubbs, Robert Johns Hopkins University 2009. ISBN 0801890179 [9780801890178]. $60
8) Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life; An Agony in Eight Fits Wilson, Robin J. W.W. Norton 2008. ISBN 0393060276 [9780393060270]. $24.95
9) Is God a Mathematician? Livio, Mario Simon & Schuster 2009. ISBN 074329405x [9780743294058]. $26
10) Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe Bardi, Jason Socrates John Wiley 2009. ISBN 0470149094 [9780470149096]. $27.95
11) Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History Robson, Eleanor Princeton University Press 2008. ISBN 069109182X [9780691091822]. $49.50
12) Introduction to the Theory of Numbers Hardy, G.H. Oxford University Press 2008. ISBN 0199219850 [9780199219858]. $150
13) Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity Graham, Loren R. Belknap: Harvard University Press 2009. ISBN 0674032934 [9780674032934]. $25.95
14) Adventures in Group Theory: Rubik’s Cube, Merlin’s Machine, and Other Mathematical Toys Joyner, David Johns Hopkins University 2008. ISBN 0801890128 [9780801890123]. $60
15) Rational Decisions Binmore, Ken Princeton University Press 2009. ISBN 0691130744 [9780691130743]. $40
16) Statistical Rules of Thumb Van Belle, Gerald John Wiley 2008. ISBN 0470144483 [9780470144480]. $63.95
17) Statistics: A Very Short Introduction Hand, David J. Oxford University Press 2008. ISBN 019923356X [9780199233564]. $11.95
18) Thinking in Systems: A Primer Meadows, Donella H. Chelsea Green 2008. ISBN 1603580557 [9781603580557]. $19.95
19) Rigorous Mathematical Thinking: Conceptual Formation in the Mathematics Classroom Kinard, James T. Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN 0521876850 [9780521876858]. $80
20) Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life Blastland, Michael Gotham Books 2009. ISBN 1592404235 [9781592404230]. $22