Introduction

As a gesture of humanitarianism, I've compiled a list of what I take to be, for one reason or another, exceptional MathReviews of which I have been made aware. A review may merit listing by being unexpected, witty, scathing, humorous or otherwise deviating considerably from the run-of-the-mill reviews. It may be either good or bad, called for or uncalled for, but it should be in some way exceptional.

This list is only possible with your support, so if you can suggest additions or would like to rate any reviews already listed, please email me. (Contributions will by default remain anonymous, but at contributors' requests, I am happy to add names to an acknowledgements section.) Contributions will be added chronologically, so look for newer additions at the end of the list. Enjoy!

Note: To try to clean up the page some, the older entries as well as related material have been moved to linked pages.

The classics (2006)

The second season (2007)

Recent Entries

2008 Additions

• On Burnside's Collected Works
  
• On Descartes embodied
  
• On Waugh
  
• On Benchekroun and Moszkowski
  
• On Atkinson and Van Willigenburg
  
• Browse all Iommi Amunátegui reviews

MR2158771 Muller on Fried, end of first paragraph. The review itself is less spectacular than the paper; if the review encourages you to look at the paper, you should not be remiss. Rating:

MR0042171 Zariski on Derwidue. Zariski is a thorough man. See also the following cited reviews: MR0035487 and MR0035488 of Walker, the latter of which seems only to make sense in context; and the more recent MR0222079 by Lipman. Rating:

MR0906255 and the 84f:46023 series Jameson on Yandarov (more on Yandarov) Rating:

MR1650700 Berg on Kultur and Kaplan Rating:

MR2180434 Stade on Lysenko Rating:

MR1428781 Gow on Armeanu Rating:

MR1054134 Gow on Huang Rating:

Added in 2009

MR1368654 Weinberger on Cappell and himself (If you recall, there was another case where an author was a review---see Rankin's review in the Related Material page below) Rating:

MR1807606 Hansen on Livingston Rating:

MR1428296 Joel on El Naschie Rating:

MR2223426, MR2223427 and MR2223428 Rickles on Gregori. Gregori doesn't seem to have written anymore papers unfortunately. Rating:

MR0785999 Ruckle on Hartl and Mehlmann Rating:

MR2031651, MR2060125, MR2097141, MR2201402, MR2300813, MR2452281, MR2454437, and MR2456287 Grossman on Marcu (who is also featured in The Classics above, and Related Material below; search MathSciNet for more on Marcu) Rating:

MR1459261 Swiatek on Lyubich Rating:

MR2239871 Grossman on Faticoni Rating:

MR1172357 Berman on Chartrand, et al. Rating:

MR0360322 Geller on Deo Rating:

MR0271400 Wu on Higuchi and Kanemaru Rating:

MR0177943 Knapowski on Chowla Rating:

MR1452155 Wu on Kawada Rating:

MR0188284 Epstein on Stallings Rating:

MR0143188 Epstein on Tao Rating:

MR1399602 Birman on Bachmuth Rating:

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