Böcker av Ian Stewart
Ny The Science of Discworld Iv - Judgement Day
The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with The Really Big Questions, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story. Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by math...
The Self and Perspective-Taking - Theory and Research from Contextual Behavioral Science and Applied Approaches
"The Self and Perspective-Taking" presents the latest research findings and approaches to understanding how the human brain develops the concepts of self and other, how disruptions in this process can cause self-understanding deficits, a...
Galois Theory
Ian Stewart's Galois Theory has been in print for 30 years. Resoundingly popular, it still serves its purpose exceedingly well. Yet mathematics education has changed considerably since 1973, when theory took precedence over examples, and the time ...
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years - now, the private collection is displayed in his ca...
The Science of Discworld II: 2 - The Globe
(1 röst)The acclaimed 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...
Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
(1 röst)Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze ...
The Science of Discworld
(1 röst)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. The Universe, of course, is our...
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's "Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities", presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and moder...
Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
A unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to Calculus. From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are funda...
Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction
Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Stewart highlights the deep implications of symmetry and its important scientific applications across the entire subject.
Why Beauty is Truth - The History of Symmetry
Leading mathematician and author Ian Stewart explores a concept both simple and complex, both multi-disciplinary and unifying -symmetry.There is no more important concept in the history of mathematics and physics than symmetry. It lies at the hear...
Systems Leadership - Creating Positive Organizations
This book is primarily concerned with how people come together to achieve a productive purpose. Human survival has always depended upon our ability to form and sustain social organisations. People have a deep need to be creative and to belong. By ...
The Collapse of Chaos - Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
Do we live in a simple or a complex universe? Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart explore the ability of complicated rules to generate simple behaviour in nature through 'the collapse of chaos'. 'The most startling, thought-provoking book I've read all yea...
From Here to Infinity
A retitled and revised edition of Ian Stewart's The Problems of Mathematics, this is the perfect guide to today's mathematics. Read about the latest discoveries, including Andrew Wiles's amazing proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, Chaos Theory, and fa...
Concepts of Modern Mathematics
In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts underlying "new math"--groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and more. By the time readers finish this book, they shall...
The Magical Maze - Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
A brilliant exploration of the beauty and power of mathematics Ian Stewart has carved out of a niche for himself as by far the leading populariser of maths in this country in a series of successful books. The Magical Maze is structured on the imag...
Nature's Numbers - Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe
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...
Why Beauty is Truth - The History of Symmetry
Leading mathematician and author Ian Stewart explores a concept both simple and complex, both multi-disciplinary and unifying - symmetry. There is no more important concept in the history of mathematics and physics than symmetry. It lies at the he...
Does God Play Dice? - The New Mathematics of Chaos
Since the dramatic discovery of the mathematical concept of chaos in 1989, the controversy of its contents has settled down. This revised edition of "Does God Play Dice?" takes a fresh look at its achievements and potential. With a new p...
Collapse of Chaos - Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
Do we live in a simple or a complex universe? Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart explore the ability of complicated rules to generate simple behaviour in nature through 'the collapse of chaos'. 'The most startling, thought-provoking book I've read all yea...
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The Foundations of Mathematics
This is a book for readers in transition from `school mathematics' to the fully fledged type of thinking used by professional mathematicians.
How to Cut a Cake - And other mathematical conundrums
Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! This is a strange world of never-ending chess games, empires on the moon, furious fireflies, and, of course, disputes over how best to cut a cake. Each quirky tale presents a fascinating ...
Cows in the Maze - And other mathematical explorations
From the mathematics of mazes, to cones with a twist, and the amazing sphericon - and how to make one - Ian Stewart is back with more mathematical stories and puzzles that are as quirky as they are fascinating, and each from the cutting edge of th...
Galois Theory
This book is an attempt to present the Galois theory as a showpiece of mathematical unification, bringing together several different branches of the subject and creating a powerful machine for the study of problems of considerable historical and m...
The Annotated Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions
This is a wonderful new version of a mathematics classic, with commentary by renowned science writer Ian Stewart. Published in 1884 by the English Clergyman Edwin A.A Abbott, "Flatland" is a unique and delightful satire. The fanciful tal...
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most...
Mathematics of Life
Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of living beings. Within the past ten years, however, mathematicians have proven that they hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our wo...
Great Mathematical Problems - The Great Mathematical Problems
It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges o...
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze— a maze in your head— a maze of ideas, a maze of logic. And that ...
