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JAMES FRANKLIN

Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW

UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics

Book reviews by Jim Franklin

'Ludicrous, but interesting', review of K. Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times ... full text
Review of F. Calemi, ed, Metaphysics and Scientific Realism: Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong.
Review of Wayne Hudson, Australian Religious Thought.
Review of Gerard Henderson, Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man.
'Science: The revolution', Review of D. Wootton, The Invention of Science.
‘It figures', Review of J. Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life.
Review of A. Azcel, Why Science Does Not Disprove God.
‘Science and self-image,, review of J.L. Heilbron, Galileo.
‘Cardinal directions’, review of George Pell’s Test Everything.
‘Views of Darwin ’, review of Tom Frame’s Evolution in the Antipodes.
‘Chickens in charge’, review of Shelley Gare’s Triumph of the Airheads.
‘Life and left-handedness’, review of Martin Gardner’s The New Ambidextrous Universe.
Review of David Stove’s Darwinian Fairytales
Review of Norman Wildberger’s Divine Proportions
Review of E.T. Jaynes’ Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Chris Marrison’s Fundamentals of Risk Measurement and Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman's Elements of Statistical Learning
Review of Susan Tridgell’s Understanding Our Selves
Review of David Stove’s On Enlightenment
Review of Atle Naess’s Galileo Galilei: When the World Stood Still (at second page of pdf)
Review of Deirdre Macpherson’s The Suffragette’s Daughter: Betty Archdale
Too many universes, review of Martin Gardner's Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries?
Reasonable science, review of Susan Haack’s Defending Science - Within Reason
Spheres and cubes, review of John Casti’s Mathematical Mountaintops
The Mathematical Unknown, review of John Derbyshire’s Prime Obsession
Big Science, review of Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science
Review of P. Ormonde, ed, Santamaria: The Politics of Fear
Thomas Kuhn’s irrationalism, review of Steve Fuller’s Thomas Kuhn
Last bastion of reason, review of Matteo Motterlini’s Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend: For and Against Method
Review of Edmund Campion’s Australian Catholics
Earls cool, review of the Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays.
Review (1983) of Bernard Lewis’s The Muslim Discovery of Europe