Mathematical Adventures for Students and Amateurs David E. Hayes & Tatiana Shubin (Eds) Published by The Mathematical Association of America (2004) 291 pages, soft cover ISBN 0-88385-548-8

This book is the latest in the excellent Spectrum Series of the Mathematical Association of America. The purpose of the series is to publish a broad range of books with appeal to a wide audience--students and teachers of mathematics, researchers, and mathematical amateurs. However, having a wide range in the intended audience does not mean that the mathematics in this particular book in the series is watered down--in fact the opposite. Some of it is very demanding, but always interesting.

There are nineteen chapters arranged into five sections: General, Number Theory, Combinatorics and probability, Geometry and topology, Applications and history. Biographical notes about the authors, and...