Books received. CERN Courier, Dec 1995, v. 35(9)

Full text: All You Wanted to Know About Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask, Mathematics for Science Students, Volume 1, by Louis Lyons, published by Cambridge University Press: An agreeable and chatty introduction to the application-oriented, nonrigorous mathematics essential to first-year science undergraduates. With his long experience of teaching maths to science students, Dr. Lyons knows that these skills are like swimming: easy to get the hang of once you try it, but difficult to master if you don't; a useful accomplishment which could be vital in an emergency; where competence improves dramatically with practice; and where the theory isn't much help. Volume 2 will follow next year. Missing from the contents list is statistics and data analysis, but Dr. Lyons has already written 'A Practical Guide to Data Analysis for Physical Science Students' and 'Statistics for Nuclear and Particle Physics', both published by Cambridge University Press (1991 and 1986 respectively).: Non-Accelerator Physics, by H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and A. Staudt, published by IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK: 534 pages, including an introduction to elementary particles and their theories, and going to cover experimental searches for proton decay, neutron-antineutron oscillations and the neutron dipole moment, the neutrino mass, neutrino oscillations, magnetic monopoles, dark matter, fractionally charged particles, etc