7. Chases and Escapes by Paul J. Nahin. Review by Eowyn Cenek. You are the captain of a merchant ship. Pirates are in pursuit! You are going in a straight line and the pirate
1. The Mathematical Coloring Book: Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of its Creators by Alexander Soifer. Review by William Gasarch. This is a book that is part history, part math, and part memoir. It covers many topics in coloring (Ramsey Theory, Graph Coloring, the 4 color problem) and the people who came up with conjectures and proofs, and is told in the first person by the author.