Ian Stewart: 83 books

A prize-winning popular science writer uses mathematical modeling to explain the cosmos. In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy,...

The seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated....

Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a...

Twelve essays take a playful approach to the subject, exploring how to play poker over the telephone without the possibility of cheating, how to distinguish plausible fallacies from unbelievable facts, and how to cope mathematically with contorted worms, drunken tennis players, and snakes that eat...

Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions,...

"It appears to us that the universe is structured in a deeply mathematical way. Falling bodies fall with predictable accelerations. Eclipses can be accurately forecast centuries in advance. Nuclear power plants generate electricity according to well-known formulas. But those examples are the...

From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major development--from the first number systems to chaos theory--and considers how each affected society and...

Es sind die wahrhaft widerspenstigen Nüsse, von denen Stewart in seinem neuen Buch berichtet. Mathematische Rätsel, an denen sich die abstraktesten Köpfe seit Jahrzehnten, Jahrhunderten oder sogar Jahrtausenden die Zähne ausbeißen. Weil ab und zu doch jemand die Lösung findet. Wie 1993 der Brite...

Ian Stewarts Führer durch den Kosmos führt uns von der Entstehung der Erde und ihres Mondes zu den Planeten und Asteroiden des Sonnensystems und von dort hinaus in die Galaxie und das Universum. Er beschreibt, wie sich Galaxien bilden, warum Sterne implodieren, wie alles begann und wie es enden...

Imagina un número tan largo que, si lo escribieras, ocuparía todo el universo. Aquí lo vas a encontrar, junto a todo tipo de números –reales, imaginarios, racionales, irracionales, positivos, negativos, simples y complejos–. Ian Stewart explora las asombrosas propiedades de números que van...

Imagina un número tan largo que, si lo escribieras, ocuparía todo el universo. Aquí lo vas a encontrar, junto a todo tipo de números –reales, imaginarios, racionales, irracionales, positivos, negativos, simples y complejos–. Ian Stewart explora las asombrosas propiedades de números que van...

Not just another science book and not just another Discworld novella, *The Science of Discworld *is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe. Can Unseen University’s eccentric...

Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes back to ancient times, with especially important contributions from Euclid, Aristotle, Eudoxus, and Archimedes. The infinitely large (infinite) is intimately...

In the 1800s mathematicians introduced a formal theory of symmetry: group theory. Now a branch of abstract algebra, this subject first arose in the theory of equations. Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences, and its applications range across the entire...