From Contexts, an article on the annual rankings of universities and their programs. You think math gives you anxiety? A review of Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor and Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I. Miller (and more and more and more). A review of A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart. Building a Temple to Math: Glen Whitney is on a quest to give the field of mathematics the museum it deserves. A review of Militant Modernism by Owen Hatherley. Gangs of D.C.: Power is sexy in the nation's capital. A review of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon

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