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April’s Book of the Month is Proofs From The Book by Martin Aigner and Günter Zeigler. (The first edition came out in 1998 — note the new editions) From the preface to the first edition. Paul Erdös liked to talk…

December’s Book of the Month is Mathematician’s Delight by W. W. Sawyer, Dover Publications 2007 (originally Penguin Books, 1943). This is Sawyer’s first book, and was written with the aim “to dispel the fear of mathematics.” According to the W.…

November’s Book of the Month is Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Basic Books, 1979). This book is about symmetry, self-reference, and other fundamental mathematical ideas explored through the works of the three people named…

October’s Book of the Month is Cuentos Con Cuentas by Miguel de Guzman (Labor, Barcelona, 1984). This is also published in English under the title The Countingbury Tales, translated by Jody Doran and published by World Scientific (2000). Have a…

September’s featured book of the month is “Mathematical Models” by H.M. Cundy and A.P. Rolett. This classic was first published in 1952 by Oxford University Press, but was republished in paperback by Tarquin in 1981. As well as nets polyhedra,…

September’s featured book of the month is “Mathematical Models” by H.M. Cundy and A.P. Rolett. This classic was first published in 1952 by Oxford University Press, but was republished in paperback by Tarquin in 1981. As well as nets polyhedra,…

August’s featured book of the month is “Indra’s Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein” by David Mumford, Caroline Series and David Wright. Wikipedia says: “The book explores the patterns created by iterating conformal maps of the complex plane called Möbius transformations, and their connections with symmetry and self-similarity. The…

July’s featured book of the month is “Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions” by Martin Gardner. This book, which was originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1959, and later by University of Chigaco Press in 1988, is the first of several collections…

From now on we will feature a different book every month that is likely to be of interest to secondary teachers wanting to know more about mathematics. We have made the decision to use this feature to bring older books…

（王婷 译 李建华 校 北京师范大学数学科学学院）