I found Paul J. Nahin鈥檚 Duelling Idiots and other Probability Puzzlers (Princeton, 拢13.95) a lot of fun, even while skipping most of the equations (now, hopefully, with all the first-edition misprints corrected). Ice-cold certainty replaces probability in Richard B. Alley鈥檚 The Two-Mile Time Machine (also Princeton, 拢12.95), which analyses the Earth鈥檚 secret climatic history through ice cores drilled in Greenland by the US. Shame that a continuing cold war in glaciology leaves him scant room to discuss Russia鈥檚 Antarctic cores, which came first.
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