Ian Stewart
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathematicians from Archimedes and Liu Hui to Benoit Mandelbrot and William Thurston. His subjects are the inspiring individuals from all over the world who have made crucial contributions to mathematics.
Author
Publisher
Profile
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Ian Stewart presents a mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, mathematical jokes and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past.
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. This book explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context of mathematics and science as a whole.
Author
Publisher
Profile
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mathematics offers new and sometimes startling perspectives on evolution and how patterns of inheritance and population work out over time-scales ranging from millions to hundreds of years. Stewart explores these and a whole range of pertinent issues.
Author
Publisher
Ivy Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Think of a zebra's stripes, the complexities of a spider's web, the uniformity of desert dunes, or the spirals in a sunflower head - think of a snowflake. 'The Beauty of Numbers in Nature' shows how life on Earth forms the principles of mathematics. Starting with the simplest patterns, each chapter looks at a different kind of patterning system and the mathematics that underlies it. In doing so the book also uncovers some universal patterns, both...
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's going to end. He considers parallel universes, fine-tuning of the cosmos, whether life on earth will be snuffed out by a comet, and what extra-terrestrial life may be like. He provides crystal clear accounts of gravity, spacetime,...
Author
Series
The science of Discworld volume IV
Publisher
Ebury Press
Language
English
Description
Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought against...
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from one to ten to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of - real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative - along with several you might have thought you couldn't think of. He explains the insights of the ancient mathematicians, shows how numbers have evolved through the ages,...