With the publication of The
Jungles of Randomness, I will be discussing the book at a
number of events during the next few months. I will be happy to
meet and talk with interested readers on any of these occasions.
Timonium, Md.:
Book Bash 97, Bibelot, 2080 York Road,
Nov. 2, 6:00 pm.Baltimore, Md.:
Bibelot, 1829 Reisterstown Rd.,
Nov. 6, 7:30 pm.Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution Associates Program,
Dec. 10, 6:00 pm (tickets required).Gaithersburg, Md.:
NIST Colloquium Series, Green Auditorium, Administration Building,
Jan. 9, 1998, 10:30 am.
Comments are welcome. Please send messages to Ivars Peterson at ip@sciserv.org.
Ivars Peterson is the mathematics and physics writer and on-line editor at Science News (http://www.sciencenews.org/). He is the author of The Mathematical Tourist, Islands of Truth, Newton’s Clock, Fatal Defect, and *The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari. His current works in progress are an updated, 10th anniversary edition of The Mathematical Tourist (to be published in 1998 by W.H. Freeman) and The House at Infinity: Imagination, Mathematics, and Art (to be published in 1999 by Wiley).
*NOW AVAILABLE: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari by Ivars Peterson. New York: Wiley, 1997. ISBN 0-471-16449-6. $24.95 US.
