Book Review: Introduction to complex analytic geometry

An Introduction to Rigid Analytic Geometry

These notes are intended to be a short course in rigid analytic geometry, without, however, providing always proofs. The excellent book [4] by Bosch, Güntzer and Remmert is an extensive introduction into rigid analytic geometry, and includes all the proofs I have omitted here.

Book Review: “Introduction to Artificial Life”

Despite the popularity of artificial life over the last 15 years or so, as witnessed by the establishment of several international conferences on the subject and the birth of the Artificial Life Journal and similar publications, there has been a conspicuous lack of decent introductory texts on the subject. Notable exceptions include “Artificial Life: An Introduction” (Langton 1995), an eclectic...

Quasicrystals and geometry: a Book Review

Penrose tilings (Fig. 1) are beautiful. They also suggest significant new mathematics, so it is about time someone wrote a book about them which is readable (in fact, eminently readable) by mathematicians. The book, Quasicrystals and geometry, by Marjorie Senechal, has an even broader goal: to present certain developments in crystallography from the past decade. The developments were generated ...

Book Review Introduction to Concurrency in Programming Languages

Parallel programming is mainstream scientific programming. A desktop workstation can easily have hundreds of pipelines. An undergraduate course in, say, computational physics should introduce the student to parallel solutions. What issues arise in parallel programming that don’t arise in sequential programming? How are the issues treated? And what text to use to explain the differences? For bon...

Book Review: Populist Systems: A General Introduction