{"product_id":"9780387746401","title":"The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators","description":"\u003cp\u003eI have never encountered a book of this kind. The best description of it I can give is that it is a mystery novel… I found it hard to stop reading before I finished (in two days) the whole text. Soifer engages the reader's attention not only mathematically, but emotionally and esthetically. May you enjoy the book as much as I did!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Branko Grünbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Washington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are doing great service to the community by taking care of the past, so the things are better understood in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Stanislaw P. Radziszowski, Rochester Institute of Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey [Van der Waerden’s sections] meet the highest standards of historical scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Charles C. Gillispie, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou have dug up a great deal of information – my compliments!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Dirk van Dalen, Utrecht University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have just finished reading your (second) article \"in search of van der Waerden\". It is a masterpiece, I could not stop reading it... Congratulations!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Janos Pach, Courant Institute of Mathematics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mathematical Coloring Book\" will (we can hope) have a great and salutary influence on all writing on mathematics in the future.“ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Peter D. Johnson Jr., Auburn University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust now a postman came to the door with a copy of the masterpiece of the century. I thank you and the mathematics community should thank you for years to come. You have set a standard for writing about mathematics and mathematicians that will be hard to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Harold W. Kuhn, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful and unique Mathematical coloring book of Alexander Soifer is another case of \u0026amp;'grave;good mathematics''… and presenting mathematics as both a science and an art… It is difficult to explain how much beautiful and good mathematics is included and how much wisdom about life is given.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Peter Mihók, Mathematical Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012933304560,"sku":"9780387746401","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780387746401_p0.jpg?v=1763695874","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780387746401","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}