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… By Lancelot Hogben, F. R. S. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.75. An Invitation to Mathematics. By Arnold … the contending parties. Thus, in politics, we have liberals and reactionaries, or conservatives and radicals. In … above the insights of men of genius and called “turning points” in the history of mathematics. Professor Bell’s …

… people on the left call for reparations for slavery, or for commemoration of the government’s decision to put Japanese … by side with images of historical documents and artifacts, complementing these with contemporary portraits of people … sense of the compressed timescale of American history. He points to one example: Roger Taney, the Supreme Court …

… these characteristics in classic form. This novel also illustrates the fundamental temper of Gordon’s … Meriwethers, as the Llewellyns, and the novel traces the complicated connections of the clan from the 18th century … Gordon’s life. Intended first—obviously—for an academic audience, Caroline Gordon contains all the scholarly …

… he ends his relationship with Jordan because of this commitment to his own honesty, telling her, “I’m thirty … fully to the dictates of her world. She stays away from soldiers and then becomes “presumably engaged to a man from New … even though she should have learned, as Nick eventually points out, that wealth “imprisons” as well as “preserves.” …

… was like an icicle in her hand. She waited for the cat to come back in and then she went upstairs to undress in the … or bring the cathouse inside the real house, which was also stupid, or let Zora Neale sleep on the futon, which was … like this, she would be thinking, Not yet! I’m not ready to die yet! Please! She had never told anyone this. But suppose …