"A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscripts

The present work is a study of the Middle English prose text known as The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, a consideration of its transmission and reception history, and a survey of its manuscript witnesses; it also incorporates an edition of the text from two of its manuscripts. The text is a cosmological treatise of approximately five thousand words, written for the most part in English, with astronomical and astrological terms in Latin, though the English translation is frequently given. It is written anonymously, and survives in thirty-three manuscripts.

[Book review] Colour: Art and Science

Tony Mann provides a review of the book: Trevor Lamb & Janine Bourriau (Eds.) Colour: Art and Science, 1995. (Darwin College Lectures), Cambridge University Press, 237pp. ISBN: 0521-49645-4 (hbk.) 0521-49963-1 (pbk.)

[Book Review] A database of North American tertiary mammals

Review of: Janis, C.M., Scott, K.M., & Jacobs, L.L. (eds.) 1998. Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals, i-x, 1491. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. £165

[Book review] Reviews. [1] Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet, London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 2002. [2] Stephen Inwood: The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), London: Macmillan, 2002

Book reviews of: [1] Nicholas Crane, Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet, London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 2002, £20, ISBN: 0297646656. [2] Stephen Inwood: The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Strange and Inventive Life of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), London: Macmillan, 2002, £18.99, ISBN: 0333782860.

[Book review] Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour

Tony Mann provides a review of the book: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Princeton University Press, 1944.

[Book review] Barry Mazur, Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen)

Tony Mann provides a review of the book: Barry Mazur, Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen), London: Allen Lane, 2003, ISBN: 0713996307

[Book review] Reviews. Peter Aughton, The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy, Orion, 2004

Book review of: Peter Aughton, The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy, Orion, 2004, 0-297-84721-x, £18.99.

[Book review] Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: In Pursuit of the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, Heinemann, 2004

Tony Mann reviews: Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: In Pursuit of the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, Heinemann, 2004, 0-434-01315-3, £12.99.

[Book review] Reviews. Scarlett Thomas, PopCo, London and New York: Fourth Estate, 2004

Book review of: Scarlett Thomas, PopCo, London and New York: Fourth Estate, 2004. 1-84115-763-5, £12.99.

[Book review] Piero della Francesca: A Mathematician's art by J.V. Field, Yale University Press.

Review of the book 'Piero della Francesca: A Mathematician’s Art' by J.V. Field, Yale University Press, 420 pp, £35 ISBN 0300103425.

[Report] LMS 'Book of Presidents' Launch

Report of the London Mathematical Society meeting to launch "The Book of Presidents, 1865-1965, London Mathematical Society" by Susan Oakes, Alan Pears and Adrian Rice, London Mathematical Society, 2005, ISBN: 978-0950273419

[Book review] Mathematics and Culture II

Review of Mathematics and Culture II. Visual Perfection: Mathematics and Creativity, Michele Emmer (Ed.), Springer, 2005 ISBN: 978-3-540-21368-0

Matching case history patterns in case-based reasoning

This paper introduces a mechanism for representing and recognizing case history patterns with rich internal temporal aspects. A case history is characterized as a collection of elemental cases as in conventional case-based reasoning systems, together with the corresponding temporal constraints that can be relative and/or with absolute values. A graphical representation for case histories is proposed as a directed, partially weighted and labeled simple graph. In terms of such a graphical representation, an eigen-decomposition graph matching algorithm is proposed for recognizing case history patterns.

Reviews [Book review]

Review of John Dee: interdisciplinary studies in English renaissance thought, Stephen Clucas (editor), Springer International Archives of the History of Ideas 193, 2006, 383pp, £ 111, ISBN 1-4020-4245-0.