Ian Stewart (mathematician)
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Ian Nicholas Stewart (born 24 September 1945 in Folkestone, England) is an English mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer.
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Mathematics and popular science
- Manifold, mathematical magazine published at the University of Warwick (1960s)
- Nut-crackers: Puzzles and Games to Boggle the Mind (Piccolo Books) with John Jaworski, 1971. Template:ISBN
- Concepts of Modern Mathematics (1975)
- Oh! Catastrophe (1982, in French)
- Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos (1989)
- Game, Set and Math (1991)
- Fearful Symmetry (1992)
- Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into (1992)
- The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World, with Jack Cohen (1995)
- Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics (1995)
- What is Mathematics? – originally by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, second edition revised by Ian Stewart (1996)
- From Here to Infinity (1996), originally published as The Problems of Mathematics (1987)
- Figments of Reality, with Jack Cohen (1997)
- The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes (1998) Template:ISBN
- Life's Other Secret (1998)
- What Shape is a Snowflake? (2001)
- Flatterland (2001) Template:ISBN (See Flatland)
- The Annotated Flatland (2002)
- Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life, with Jack Cohen (2002). Second edition published as What Does a Martian Look Like? The Science of Extraterrestrial Life.
- Math Hysteria (2004) Template:ISBN
- The Mayor of Uglyville's Dilemma (2005)
- Letters to a Young Mathematician (2006) Template:ISBN
- How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums (2006) Template:ISBN
- Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry (2007) Template:ISBN
- Taming the infinite: The story of Mathematics from the first numbers to chaos theory (2008) Template:ISBN
- Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities (2008) Template:ISBN
- Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures: Another Drawer from the Cabinet of Curiosities (2009) Template:ISBN
- Cows in the Maze: And Other Mathematical Explorations (2010) Template:ISBN
- The Mathematics of Life (2011) Template:ISBN
- In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (2012) Template:ISBN
- Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction (2013) Template:ISBN
- Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems (2013) Template:ISBN
- Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries (2014) Template:ISBN
- Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart (iPad app) (2014)
- Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe (2016) Template:ISBN
- Infinity: A Very Short Introduction (2017), Oxford University Press.
- Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians (2017) Template:ISBN
- Do Dice Play God? The Mathematics of Uncertainty (2019), Profile Books.
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