What We Are Reading Today: ‘Validated Numerics’

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Updated 11 June 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Validated Numerics’

Author: WARWICK TUCKER

“Validated Numerics” offers a self-contained primer on the subject, guiding readers from the basics to more advanced concepts and techniques.

It provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of validated numerics, an emerging new field that combines the strengths of scientific computing and pure mathematics.

In numerous fields ranging from pharmaceutics and engineering to weather prediction and robotics, fast and precise computations are essential.

 


What We Are Reading Today: The Letter of the Law by Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Updated 07 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: The Letter of the Law by Jeanne-Marie Jackson

The African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866–1930) was a key figure in liberal anticolonial thought as well as African and British imperial literary and intellectual history.

In this revisionist account, Jeanne-Marie Jackson positions his career as an intriguing case study of anticolonial literature and politics.

Jackson maps the contours of Casely Hayford’s thought through sustained attention to his written work within its Gold Coast and British imperial contexts, demonstrating the far-reaching conceptual resources of his legal background.