Category Archives: Exceptional reviews

Today I’m making two blog posts about exceptional reviews: one review of a book and one of a paper.  This post is about Grigor Sargsyan‘s exceptional review of a paper:  John Steel‘s chapter, An outline of inner model theory, in the … Continue reading →

Today I’m making two blog posts about exceptional reviews: one review of a book and one of a paper. This post is about Harald Helfgott‘s review of Terry Tao‘s book, Expansion in finite simple groups of Lie type, published by the … Continue reading →

Another great review.  Here Pieter Belmans reviews a paper by Bhatt and Scholze on étale topology.  Before describing the authors’ work, Belmans tells us where étale topology comes from and why some news ideas might be necessary.  He then gives a quick description … Continue reading →

I have fallen behind in my posts about exceptional reviews in MathSciNet.  Let’s try to catch up with an excellent review of the book Tensor Categories by Pavel Etingof, Shlomo Gelaki, Dmitri Nikshych, and Victor Ostrik.  The review is written by … Continue reading →

Mathematics flourishes when ideas from one area of mathematics can be used in another area.  For a long time (certainly since Descartes), algebra has been a great asset to geometry.  In return, geometry has been helpful to algebra, for instance … Continue reading →

Ron Solomon has been quite involved in the study of finite simple groups and their classification.  He is one of the coauthors of the monumental book series on the subject, which starts with The Classification of the Finite Simple Groups.  Now … Continue reading →

The problem of bad science has been in the news recently.  See, for instance this article in the New York Times, the website Retraction Watch, or this retracted article in Science.  In any of the sciences, researchers can get a sense that … Continue reading →

Most of the reviews in MathSciNet are for articles, primarily from journals, but also from proceedings volumes and other collections.  Did you know that we also review books?  A book-length treatment of a subject allows the author to stretch out … Continue reading →