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Highly regard compilation of reviews. Published ca. 20 reviews in «Novye knigi za rubezhom» (“New Books Abroad“), mostly on geodetic application of least squares.Collaborated in the journal of abstracts «Matematika», the then formidable rival of “Math. Rev.” and the “Zentralbl.”; ”. Reviews of books:

  • Porter, T.H. Rise of Statistical Thinking. Princeton, 1986. Centaurus, vol. 31, 1988, pp. 171 - 172.
  • Stigler, S.M. History of Statistics. Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Ibidem, pp. 173 - 174.
  • Schneider, I. Die Entwicklung der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie. Darmstadt, 1988. Zentralbl MATH, 681.01001
  • Gigerenzer, G., et al. Empire of Chance. Cambridge, 1990. Physis, vol. 29, No. 2, 1992, pp. 633 - 638.
  • Von Plato, J. Creating Modern Probability. Cambridge, 1995. Zentralbl. MATH, 829.01012.
  • Edgeworth, F.Y. Writings, vols 1 - 3. Cheltenham, UK, 1996. Ibidem 860.01035.
  • Descrosieres, A. Politics of Large Numbers. Cambr., Mass., 1998. Isis, vol. 92, 2001, pp. 184 - 185.
  • Bernoulli, J. Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. Frankfurt / Main, 1999. Zentralbl. MATH, 957.01032.
  • Franklin, J. Science of Conjecture. Baltimore, 2001. Zentralbl. MATH, 996.01001.
  • Howie, D. Interpreting Probability. Cambridge, 2002. Zentralbl. MATH, 1031.01012.
  • Dale, A.I. Most honourable remembrance. Life and work of T. Bayes. New York, 2003. Zentralbl. MATH, 1030.01031.
  • Sylla, E. D. Ars Conjectandi , English translation. Baltimore, 2006. Hist. Scientiarum, vol. 16, 2006, pp. 212 - 214. In Russian: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznania i Tekhniki (VIET), No. 1, 2007, pp. 178 - 180..
  • Porter, T. M. Karl Pearson. Oxford, 2004. Ibidem, pp. 206 - 209. In Russian: VIET, No. 2, 2007, pp. 191 - 195..
  • Ekeland, I. The Best of All Possible Worlds. Chicago - London, 2006. Almagest, vol. 2, 2011, pp. 146 - 147. In Russian: VIET, No. 2, 2009, pp. 211 - 213.