{"product_id":"the-mathematical-coloring-book-mathematics-of-coloring-and-the-colorful-life-of-its-creators-9781489996268","title":"The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexander Soifer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Combinatorics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have never encountered a book of this kind. The best description of it I can give is that it is a mystery novel... I found it hard to stop reading before I finished (in two days) the whole text. Soifer engages the reader's attention not only mathematically, but emotionally and esthetically. May you enjoy the book as much as I did!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Branko Grünbaum\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversity of Washington\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou are doing great service to the community by taking care of the past, so the things are better understood in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Stanislaw P. Radziszowski, Rochester Institute of Technology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e They [Van der Waerden's sections] meet the highest standards of historical scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Charles C. Gillispie, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou have dug up a great deal of information - my compliments!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Dirk van Dalen, Utrecht University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI have just finished reading your (second) article \"in search of van der Waerden\". It is a masterpiece, I could not stop reading it... Congratulations!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Janos Pach, Courant Institute of Mathematics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Mathematical Coloring Book\" will (we can hope) have a great and salutary influence on all writing on mathematics in the future.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Peter D. Johnson Jr., Auburn University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJust now a postman came to the door with a copy of the masterpiece of the century. I thank you and the mathematics community should thank you for years to come. You have set a standard for writing about mathematics and mathematicians that will be hard to match.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Harold W. Kuhn, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe beautiful and unique \u003cem\u003eMathematical coloring book\u003c\/em\u003e of Alexander Soifer is another case of ``good mathematics''... and presenting mathematics as both a science and an art... It is difficult to explain how much beautiful and good mathematics is included and how much wisdom about life is given.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Peter Mihók, Mathematical Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45274530611351,"sku":"9781489996268","price":13221.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781489996268.webp?v=1769280200","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-mathematical-coloring-book-mathematics-of-coloring-and-the-colorful-life-of-its-creators-9781489996268","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}