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Recent essays

Maths Moves in Mysterious Ways, Essay in Standpoint Magazine, October 2009, p. 89.

Facing the Music, Essay on Ronald Harwood's plays Collaboration and Taking Sides, in Standpoint Magazine, June 2009, p. 83.

Taking research for granted, Essay in Standpoint Magazine, April 2009, p. 82.

Ditch the new maths for good old Euclid, Essay in Standpoint Magazine, November 2008, p. 54.

Recent book reviews

Review of: Antimatter by Frank Close, Times Literary Supplement 12 June 2009, p. 13.

Review of: Taming the Infinite—The Story of Mathematics by Ian Stewart, Times Literary Supplement 22 May 2009, p. 28. Link to this review and the one below.

Review of: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart, Times Literary Supplement, 1 May 2009, p. 28. Link to this review and the one above.

Review of: 1000 essential things you didn't know you didn't know by John D. Barrow, Standpoint Magazine, December 2008, p. 61. Link to the review.

Review of: Quadrangular Algebras by Richard M. Weiss, Bulletin of the Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (April 2008) 315–319. Link to download the review.

Review of: Why Beauty is Truth by Ian Stewart; The Equation that couldn't be solved by Mario Livio; and Unknown Quantity by John Derbyshire, Times Literary Supplement (15 Feb. 2008) p. 37. Link to the review.

Review of: Finding Moonshine by Marcus du Sautoy, Nature (7 Feb. 2008) p. 629.