Libros de Ian Stewart

The Science Of Discworld Ii

• 368 páginas
• Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction...

The Science Of Discworld

• 416 páginas
• When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic.

Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction

• 152 páginas
• 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,...

Ta Today: A New Introduction To Transactional Analysis. Ian Stewart, Vann Joines

Taming The Infinite: The Story Of Mathematics

• From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, an acclaimed mathematician and popular..

The Mathematics Of Life

• Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our..

Mathematics Of Life

• 288 páginas

Professor Stewart's Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities

• 310 páginas
• A treasure trove of mathematical oddities, including games, puzzles, facts, numbers and delightful mathematical nibbles for the curious and adventurous mind.

Galois Theory

• 236 páginas
• Galois theory is a showpiece of mathematical unification, bringing together several different branches of the subject and creating a power­ ful machine for the study of problems of considerable historical and

Professor Stewart's Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities

• 310 páginas
• Knowing that the most exciting math is "not" taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent..

Warum (gerade) Mathematik?

• 224 páginas
• Was machen eigentlich Mathematiker? Den ganzen Tag nur rechnen und Gleichungen lösen und Formeln ableiten und Funktionen darstellen? Geht es in der Mathematik ausschließlich um Zahlen? Wie kommt man auf die Idee, Mathematik zu studieren, und...

Letters To A Young Mathematician

• 224 páginas
• Mathematician Ian Stewart tells readers what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical-what mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof,...

How To Cut A Cake

• Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! Here are twenty more curious puzzles and fantastical mathematical stories from one of the world's most popular and accessible writers on mathematics. This is a strange world of never-ending...

Figments Of Reality

• Peppered with wit and controversial topics, this is a refreshing new look at the co-evolution of..

Nature's Numbers

• 176 páginas
• Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a...

Figments Of Reality

• 340 páginas
• Peppered with wit and controversial topics, this is a refreshing new look at the co-evolution of mind and culture. Bestselling authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen (The Collapse of Chaos, 1994) eloquently argue that our minds evolved within an inextricable...

What Is Mathematics?

• 566 páginas
• For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger....

Singularities And Groups In Bifurcation Theory

• 536 páginas
• Bifurcation theory studies how the structure of solutions to equations changes as parameters are varied. The nature of these changes depends both on the number of parameters and on the symmetries of the equations. Volume I discusses how singularity-theore...

Complex Analysis

• 290 páginas
• This is a very successful textbook for undergraduate students of pure mathematics. Students often find the subject of complex analysis very difficult. Here the authors, who are experienced and well-known expositors, avoid many of such difficulties by usin...

Complex Analysis