Peterson, Ivars The mathematical tourist. New and updated snapshots of modern mathematics. Revised reprint of the 1988 original. (English) Zbl 0997.00524 New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company. xviii, 266 p. (1998). See the review of the first edition (1988) in Zbl 0743.00008. Cited in 1 Document MSC: 00A08 Recreational mathematics 00A07 Problem books Keywords:prime properties; big primes; minimal surfaces; stereographic projection; hypersphere; mathematical monsters; irregular surfaces; nonlinear differential equations for modeling air flow; inverted parabola; Newton’s method Citations:Zbl 0743.00008 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{I. Peterson}, The mathematical tourist. New and updated snapshots of modern mathematics. Revised reprint of the 1988 original. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company (1998; Zbl 0997.00524)