The Carus Mathematical Monographs is a monograph series published by the Mathematical Association of America. Books in this series are intended to appeal to a wide range of readers in mathematics and science. Scope and audience While the books are intended to cover nontrivial material, the emphasis is on exposition and clear communication rather than novel results and a systematic Bourbaki-style presentation. The webpage for the series states: The exposition of mathematical subjects that the monographs contain are set forth in a manner comprehensible not only to teachers and students specializing in mathematics, but also to scientific workers in other fields. More generally, the monographs are intended for the wide circle of thoughtful people familiar with basic graduate or advanced undergraduate mathematics encountered in the study of mathematics itself or in the context of related disciplines who wish to extend their knowledge without prolonged and critical study of the mathematical journals and treatises. Many of the books in the series have become classics in the genre of general mathematical exposition. Series listing Calculus of Variations, by G. A. Bliss (out of print) Analytic Functions of a Complex Variable, by D. R. Curtiss (out of print) Mathematical Statistics, by H. L. Rietz (out of print) Projective Geometry, by J. W. Young (out of print) A History of Mathematics in America before 1900, by D. E. Smith and Jekuthiel Ginsburg (out of print) Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials, by Dunham Jackson (out of print) Vectors and Matrices, by C. C. MacDuffee (out of print) Rings and Ideals, by N. H. McCoy (out of print) The Theory of Algebraic Numbers, second edition, by Harry Pollard and Harold G. Diamond The Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms, by B. W. Jones (out of print) Irrational Numbers, by Ivan Niven Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis and Number Theory, by Mark Kac A Primer of Real Functions, third edition, by Ralph P. Boas, Jr. Combinatorial Mathematics, by Herbert John Ryser Noncommutative Rings, by I. N. Herstein (out of print) Dedekind Sums, by Hans Rademacher and Emil Grosswald (out of print) The Schwarz Function and its Applications, by Philip J. Davis Celestial Mechanics, by Harry Pollard (out of print) Field Theory and its Classical Problems, by Charles Robert Hadlock The Generalized Riemann Integral, by Robert M. McLeod (out of print) From Error-Correcting Codes through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups, by Thomas M. Thompson Random Walks and Electric Networks,