Ian Stewart (GBR) * 24.09.1945
Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS (born 24 September 1945) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England, and a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer.
Stewart was born in 1945 in England. While in the sixth form at school, Stewart came to the attention of the mathematics teacher. The teacher had Stewart sit mock A-level examinations without any preparation along with the upper-sixth students; Stewart placed first in the examination. This teacher arranged for Stewart to be admitted to Cambridge on a scholarship to Churchill College, where he obtained a BA in mathematics. Stewart then went to the University of Warwick for his doctorate, on completion of which in 1969 he was offered an academic position at Warwick, where he presently professes mathematics. He is well known for his popular expositions of mathematics and his contributions to catastrophe theory.
While at Warwick he edited the mathematical magazine Manifold. He also wrote a column called "Mathematical Recreations" for Scientific American magazine from 1991 to 2001. He wrote a total of 96 columns forScientific American, some of which were reprinted in the book "How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums".
Stewart has held visiting academic positions in Germany (1974), New Zealand (1976), and the US (University of Connecticut 1977–78, University of Houston 1983–84).
Stewart has published more than 140 scientific papers, including a series of influential papers co-authored with Jim Collins on coupled oscillators and the symmetry of animal gaits.
Stewart has collaborated with Dr Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett on four popular science books based on Pratchett's Discworld. In 1999 Terry Pratchett made both Jack Cohen and Professor Ian Stewart "Honorary Wizards of the Unseen University" at the same ceremony at which the University of Warwick gave Terry Pratchett an honorary degree.
In March 2014 Ian Stewart's iPad app, Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart, launched in the App Store. The app was produced in partnership with Profile Books and Touch Press.
Stewart married his wife, Avril, in 1970. They met at a party at a house Avril was renting while she trained as a nurse. They have two sons. He lists his recreations as science fiction, painting, guitar, keeping fish, geology, Egyptology and snorkelling.
Bibliography:
Mathematics and popular science
Concepts of Modern Mathematics (1981)
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: 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), first published as The Problems of Mathematics (1992)
Figments of Reality, with Jack Cohen (1997)
The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes (1998) ISBN 0-471-35065-6
Life's Other Secret (1998)
What Shape is a Snowflake? (2001)
Flatterland (2001) ISBN 0-7382-0442-0 (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) ISBN 0-19-861336-9
The Mayor of Uglyville's Dilemma (2005)
Letters to a Young Mathematician (2006) ISBN 0-465-08231-9
How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums (2006) ISBN 978-0-19-920590-5
Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry (2007) ISBN 0-465-08236-X
Taming the infinite: The story of Mathematics from the first numbers to chaos theory (2008) ISBN 978-1847241818
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities (2008) ISBN 1-84668-064-6
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures: Another Drawer from the Cabinet of Curiosities (2009) ISBN 978-1-84668-292-6
Cows in the Maze: And Other Mathematical Explorations (2010) ISBN 978-0-19-956207-7
The Mathematics of Life (2011) ISBN 978-0-465-02238-0
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (2012) ISBN 978-1-84668-531-6
Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction (2013) ISBN 978-0-19965-198-6
Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems (2013) ISBN 978-0-46502-240-3
Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart (iPad app) (2014)
Science of Discworld series
The Science of Discworld, with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett
The Science of Discworld II: The Globe, with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day, with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett
Textbooks
Catastrophe Theory and its Applications, with Tim Poston, Pitman, 1978. ISBN 0-273-01029-8.
Complex Analysis: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Plane, I. Stewart, D Tall. 1983 ISBN 0-521-24513-3
Algebraic number theory and Fermat's last theorem, 3rd Edition, I. Stewart, D Tall. A. K. Peters (2002) ISBN 1-56881-119-5
Galois Theory, 3rd Edition, Chapman and Hall (2000) ISBN 1-58488-393-6 Galois Theory Errata
Science fiction
Wheelers, with Jack Cohen (fiction)
Heaven, with Jack Cohen, ISBN 0-446-52983-4, Aspect, May 2004 (fiction)
Science and Mathematics
Stewart, I. (2007). "Mathematics: Some assembly needed". Nature 448 (7152): 419–419. doi:10.1038/448419a. PMID 17653179.
Stewart, I. (2006). "Still light-years away from articulating the infinite". Nature 441 (7095): 812–812. doi:10.1038/441812e. PMID 16778864.
Stewart, I. (2005). "Schrödinger's mousetrap". Nature 433 (7023): 200–201. doi:10.1038/433200a. PMID 15662394.
Stewart, I. (2004). "Nonlinear dynamics: Quantizing the classical cat". Nature 430 (7001): 731–732. doi:10.1038/430731a. PMID 15306790.
Stewart, I. (2004). "Networking opportunity". Nature 427 (6975): 601–604. doi:10.1038/427601a. PMID 14961110.
Stewart, I. (2003). "Mathematics: The 24-dimensional greengrocer". Nature 424 (6951): 895–896. doi:10.1038/424895a. PMID 12931173.
Stewart, I. (2003). "Mathematics: Conjuring with conjectures". Nature 423 (6936): 124–127. doi:10.1038/423124a. PMID 12736663.
Stewart, I. (2003). "Mathematics: Regime change in meteorology". Nature 422 (6932): 571–573. doi:10.1038/422571a. PMID 12686981.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stewart_%28mathematician%29
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