Book Review: Introduction to Vector Analysis

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...

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

Review of the book: Introduction to Abstract Algebra

The book of Jonathan D. H. Smith, ”Introduction to Abstract Algebra” is a careful treatment of the principal topics of Abstract Algebra in 327 pages. It contains 11 chapters (318 pages) and an index of terms (9 pages). There is no bibliography. Taking a different approach from several books, it helps the reader to have a solid introduction to abstract algebra and establishes the link between it...

Book Review: Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology