Welcome to Goodreads members!

Last week I learned about a cool social website for book-lovers, called Goodreads. If you join the site, you can submit reviews and evaluations of books that you have read. You can also network with friends and find out what books they are reading. Think Facebook but...

Interview Posted at “The Browser”

Today an interview with me was posted at “The Browser,” a British website devoted mostly to book reviews. Before I talk about the interview, let me just say how much I love their concept. The centerpiece of the website is called “Five Books,” a...

Review in a Statistics Blog

Christian Robert has published a review of The Universe in Zero Words on his blog, Xi’an’s Og. A version of this review will also appear in Chance, published by the American Statistical Association. I’ve been curious to see how my book will be...

SIAM Math in Industry report published!

I’d like to announce the publication of the SIAM Report on Mathematics in Industry, which is available online as a PDF from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). As an official report of SIAM, the document is anonymous. However, I can tell...

Reader Reactions, Facebook Page

I’ve started getting the first reactions from readers of The Universe in Zero Words, mostly from friends of mine, so far. There’s a common theme to them, as in this e-mail that I received this morning: My copy of The Universe in Zero Words just arrived. At...