During the last four years I have reviewed about 60 books in the Tietoyhteys magazine, where I have been editing the book review column. Most of the reviews have been written by me, although I have been fortunate to find a couple of colleagues interested in reviewing books. Writing a book review is never a straightforward task, but it can be very rewarding. Writing a review forces you to ask: Did I understand what the writer intended to say? Often you find that you didn't.

I must say that I'm proud of having written the reviews, although a few of them are not so well written as I now would like. Some of the reviews are quite short, due to the space constraints on the pages of the magazine. Perhaps longer reviews would have been better, and less of them. In any case, reading these books taught me a lot. Sometimes people don't believe that you can learn anything from books. I believe I learned a lot. And I also learned to write about a few new topics.

Posting the quote above in November generated one contact. I now have a new reviewer of books, and his first review was good indeed. The review will appear in the first issue of the Tietoyhteys magazine as the 'main review', which gets the most notice.

I'm still looking for new reviewers, and new books to review. If you know Finnish, have a good taste with books, and believe that you can write about them, please contact me. Or if you publish quality books about science or technology, you are invited to offer the books for review.

I'm posting the list of book reviews here for all to see, organized by the year they appeared.

2003

• Digital Typography Using LaTeX (Syropoulos, Tsolomitis ja Sofroniou; Springer, 2003)

• Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust (Donald MacKenzie; The MIT Press, 2001)
• The Colossal Book of Mathematics (Martin Gardner, W. W. Norton & Company 2001)
• The Mathematician Sophus Lie - It was the Audacity of My Thinking (Arild Subhaug, Springer-Verlag 2002)
• The Social Life of Information (John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Harward Business School Press 2000)
• Mathematical Vistas (Peter Hilton, Derek Holton ja Jean Pedersen; Springer, 2002)
• Essential Mathematics for Computer Graphics - Fast (John Vince, Springer-Verlag 2001)

• Open Source: Unauthorised White Papers (Rosenberg; Hungry Minds Inc. 2000)
• Writing to Learn (William Zinsser; Harper & Row 1989)
• User Interface Design for Programmers (Joel Spolsky; Apress 2001)
• Stamping through Mathematics (Robin J. Wilson; Springer 2001)
• Mathematics Unlimited - 2001 and Beyond (toim. Engquist ja Schmid; Springer-Verlag, 2001)
• Math into LaTeX (George Grtzer; 3. painos; Birkhuser, 2000)
• When Things Start to Think (Neil Gershenfeld; Owl Books 2000)
• The Nature of Mathematical Modeling (Neil Gershenfeld; Cambridge University Press 1999)
• Number Theory for Computing (Song Y. Yan; Springer 2000)
• Hakkerietiikka (Himanen; WSOY 2001)
• Pi - Unleashed (Arndt ja Haenel; 2. painos; Springer-Verlag 2001)
• Rebel Code: How Linus Torvalds, Linux and the Open Source Movement are Outmastering Microsoft (Glyn Moody; Perseus Press 2001)
• How to Teach Mathematics (Steven G. Krantz; 2nd edition; American Mathematica Society 1999)

2000

• Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences (Nicholas J. Higham; toinen painos, SIAM 1998)
• Disturbing the Universe (Freeman Dyson; Basic Books 1979)
• A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip (Jean-Luc Chabert et al.; Springer 1999)
• Programming for Mathematicians (Raymond Séroul; Springer 2000)
• How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics (Z. Michalewicz ja D. B. Fogel; Springer 2000)
• The Book of Numbers (John H. Conway & Richard K. Guy; 2. korjattu painos, Springer-Verlag 1998)
• Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers (Calvin C. Clawson; Plenum Press 1996)
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Carl Sagan; Ballantine Books 1997)
• The Design of Everyday Things (Donald Norman; Doubleday 1990)

• Symbolista ja numeerista matematiikkaa Maple-ohjelmistolla (Heikki Apiola; Otatieto, 1998)
• Osaaminen ja uuden luominen innovaatioverkoissa (Miettinen, Lehenkari, Hasu, Hyvönen; Sitra 1999)
• Life by the Numbers (Keith Devlin; Wiley 1998)
• 100 Great Problems of Elementary Mathematics (Heinrich Dörrie; Dover, 1965)
• Proofs from THE BOOK (Aigner, Ziegler; Springer-Verlag, 1998)
• Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics (William Dunham; Penguin Books, 1990)
• Life: An Unauthorized Biography (Richard Fortey; Flamingo, 1998)

• Advice to a Young Scientist (P. B. Medawar; BasicBooks, 1979)
• Evolution (Mark Ridley; Blackwell Science, 1996, 2nd edition)
• The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics (Stanislas Dehaene; Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Konetiedon kritiikki (Theodory Roszak; Art House, 1992)
• The Elements of Style (Strunk, White; Allyn & Bacon, 1979, 3rd ed.)
• On Writing Well (William Zinsser; HarperCollins, 1994, 5th ed.)
• Tekstintekijän käsikirja (Iisa, Kankaanpää, Piehl; Yrityskirjat Oy, 1997)
• Things that Make Us Smart (Donald A. Norman; Perseus Press, 1994)
• The Evolution of Consciousness: the Origins of the Way We Think (Robert Ornstein; Touchstone Books, 1992)
• Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Antonio R. Damasio; Avon Books, 1995)
• In the Palaces of Memory (George Johnson; Vintage Books, 1992)
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (John Allen Paulos; Anchor, 1996)
• Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers (Jan Gullberg; Norton, 1997)
• The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (Jack Cohen ja Ian Stewart; Penguin, 1995)
• From Here to Infinity (Ian Stewart; Oxford University Press, 1996)