A book review on Mathematics for Physicists This new book by B. R. Martin and G. Shaw [1] is part of the Manchester Physics Series, a long-established set of elementary texbooks aimed primarily at providing undergraduate physics students (but also students in other physical sciences, such as astronomy, chemistry, earth and planetary science, etc.) with relatively short, self-contained courses o...

In the preface to his new book Laws, Theories and Patterns in Ecology, Walter Dodds tells us that his own search for general principles in ecology started over “a pitcher or two” with a colleague and that he hoped the book would provide a “fruitful topic for discussion among ecologists”. It was precisely in that spirit that a group of ecologists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies got to...

We review the recent book authored by Hans Kellerer, Ulrich Pferschy, and David Pisinger, Knapsack Problems, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-40286-1, price: $129.

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The First Sense: A Philosophical Study of Human Touch is one of the rare contributions in theoretical and philosophical psychology exclusively on human’s sense of touch in the past decades. Although the study is conducted from a philosophical point of view, it is highly empirically informed. The author seeks to base his distinctions and arguments on empirical findings, but also offers his own o...

The recent booming interest in Knowledge Grid is just there. It can at least be revealed by the tens of thousands of related entries that Google.com returns based on these two buzzwords. If the ultimate goal of Grid computing is to facilitate distributed computing power access in a seemless manner, that of Knowledge Grid is to mobilize the distributed knowledge for effective reuse. “The Knowled...

Recent trends in medical education emphasize the importance of producing well-rounded graduates who not only possess a sufficient fund of medical knowledge but who can think clearly and deeply. Unfortunately, many medical educators struggle with what exactly it means to “think” and do not know where to begin when asked to teach “thinking.” We believe the book Making Thinking Visible, though wri...

This handbook is divided into two sections. Section 1 is composed of seventeen chapters which summarize the basic methods and principles used for the study of infectious disease epidemiology. On the other hand, Section 2 discusses the most important infectious diseases worldwide, grouped in ten separate chapters according to their way of transmission, with an emphasis on their ability to cause ...