British mathematician and writer (born 1945)
Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA [ 3] popular-science and science-fiction writer.[ 4] University of Warwick , England.
Education and early life [ edit ] Stewart was born in 1945 inFolkestone , England. While in thesixth form atHarvey Grammar School in Folkestone he came to the attention of the mathematics teacher. The teacher had Stewart sit mockA-level examinations without any preparation along with the upper-sixth students; Stewart was placed first in the examination. He was awarded a scholarship to study at theUniversity of Cambridge as an undergraduate student ofChurchill College, Cambridge , where he studied theMathematical Tripos and obtained a first-classBachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1966. Stewart then went to theUniversity of Warwick where hisPhD onLie algebras was supervised byBrian Hartley and completed in 1969.[ 5]
Career and research [ edit ] After his PhD, Stewart was offered an academic position at Warwick. He is well known for his popular expositions of mathematics and his contributions tocatastrophe theory .[ 6]
While at Warwick, Stewart edited the mathematical magazineManifold [ 7] Scientific American Martin Gardner ,Douglas Hofstadter , andA. K. Dewdney . Altogether, he wrote 96 columns forScientific American , which were later reprinted in the books "Math Hysteria", "How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums" and "Cows in the Maze".
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 140scientific papers , including a series of influential papers co-authored withJim Collins oncoupled oscillators and the symmetry of animal gaits .[ 4] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13]
Stewart has collaborated withJack Cohen andTerry Pratchett on fourpopular science books based on Pratchett'sDiscworld Terry Pratchett made bothJack 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 withProfile Books andTouch Press .[ 14]
Mathematics and popular science [ edit ] Manifold University of Warwick (1960s)Nut-crackers: Puzzles and Games to Boggle the Mind (Piccolo Books) with John Jaworski, 1971.ISBN 978-0-330-02795-3 Concepts of Modern Mathematics Oh! Catastrophe (1982, in French)Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos [ 15] 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 Jack Cohen (1995)Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics (1995)What is Mathematics? Richard Courant andHerbert Robbins , second edition revised by Ian Stewart (1996)From Here to Infinity The Problems of Mathematics (1987)Figments of Reality 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 ISBN 0-7382-0442-0 (SeeFlatland )The AnnotatedFlatland (2002)Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life Jack Cohen (2002). Second edition published asWhat 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 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 ISBN 0-465-08236-X Taming the infinite: The story of Mathematics from the first numbers to chaos theory (2008)ISBN 978-1-84724-181-8 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 ISBN 978-0-465-02238-0 In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World ISBN 978-1-84668-531-6 [ 16] Symmetry: A Very Short Introduction (2013)ISBN 978-0-19965-198-6 Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems ISBN 978-0-46502-240-3 Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries ISBN 978-1-84668-348-0 Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart (iPad app ) (2014)Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe (2016)ISBN 978-1-78125-718-0 Infinity: A Very Short Introduction (2017), Oxford University Press.Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians ISBN 978-0-465-09612-1 Do Dice Play God? The Mathematics of Uncertainty (2019), Profile Books.What's the use ?: How mathematics shapes everyday life? (2021), Basic Books.What's the use ?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (2021), Profile Books.Computer programming [ edit ] Easy Programming for the ZX Spectrum (1982), with Robin Jones, Shiva Publishing Ltd.,ISBN 978-0-906812-23-5 Computer Puzzles For Spectrum & ZX81 (1982), with Robin Jones, Shiva Publishing Ltd.,ISBN 978-0-906812-27-3 Timex Sinclair 1000: Programs, Games, and Graphics , with Robin Jones, Birkhäuser,ISBN 978-3-7643-3080-4 Spectrum Machine Code (1983), with Robin Jones, Shiva Publishing Ltd.,ISBN 978-0-906812-35-8 Further Programming for the ZX Spectrum (1983), with Robin Jones, Shiva Publishing Ltd.,ISBN 978-0-906812-24-2 Gateway to Computing with the ZX Spectrum (1984), Shiva Publishing Ltd.,ISBN 978-1-85014-053-5 Science of Discworld series[ edit ] Catastrophe Theory and its Applications , with Tim Poston, Pitman, 1978.ISBN 0-273-01029-8 .The Foundations of Mathematics , 2nd Edition, Ian Stewart, David Tall. Oxford University Press, 2015.ISBN 978-0-19-870643-4 Algebraic number theory and Fermat's last theorem , 4th Edition, Ian Stewart, David Tall. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2015ISBN 978-1-49-873839-2 Complex Analysis , 2nd Edition, Ian Stewart, David Tall. Cambridge University Press, 2018.ISBN 978-1-10-843679-3 Galois Theory , 5th Edition, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2022ISBN 978-10-3210159-0 Galois Theory Errata for 3rd EditionScience and mathematics [ edit ] In 1995 Stewart received theMichael Faraday Medal and in 1997 he gave theRoyal Institution Christmas Lecture onThe Magical Maze . He was elected as aFellow of the Royal Society in 2001.[ 2] Christopher Zeeman Medal, awarded jointly by theLondon Mathematical Society (LMS) and theInstitute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) for his work on promoting mathematics.[ 17]
Stewart married Avril, in 1970.[ 2] [ 2] [ 2]
^ Ian Stewart at theMathematics Genealogy Project ^a b c d e Anon (2014)."STEWART, Prof. Ian Nicholas" Who's Who Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.doi :10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.36256 . (Subscription orUK public library membership required.) ^ Ian Nicholas Stewart) encyclopedia.com^a b Ian Stewart publications indexed by theScopus bibliographic database.(subscription required) ^ Stewart, Ian Nicholas (1969).Subideals of Lie algebras wrap.warwick.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Warwick.OCLC 921056078 .EThOS uk.bl.ethos.594893 . ^ Bellos, Alex (16 April 2011)."Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart – review" .The Guardian . ^ "In conversation with Professor Ian Stewart – interview" .Chalkdust . 14 March 2016.^ Ashwin, P.; Buescu, J.; Stewart, I. (1994). "Bubbling of attractors and synchronisation of chaotic oscillators".Physics Letters A .193 (2): 126.Bibcode :1994PhLA..193..126A .doi :10.1016/0375-9601(94)90947-4 . ^ Strogatz, Steve H. ;Stewart, Ian (1993)."Coupled oscillators and biological synchronization" (PDF) .Scientific American .269 (6):102– 9.Bibcode :1993SciAm.269f.102S .doi :10.1038/scientificamerican1293-102 .PMID 8266056 .^ Ashwin, P.; Buescu, J.; Stewart, I. (1996). "From attractor to chaotic saddle: A tale of transverse instability".Nonlinearity .9 (3): 703.Bibcode :1996Nonli...9..703A .doi :10.1088/0951-7715/9/3/006 .S2CID 250784441 . ^ Collins, J. J.; Stewart, I. N. (1993). "Coupled nonlinear oscillators and the symmetries of animal gaits".Journal of Nonlinear Science .3 (1):349– 392.Bibcode :1993JNS.....3..349C .doi :10.1007/BF02429870 .S2CID 122386357 . ^ Golubitsky, Marty ;Stewart, Ian ; Buono, Pietro-Luciano;Collins, James J. (1999). "Symmetry in locomotor central pattern generators and animal gaits".Nature .401 (6754):693– 5.Bibcode :1999Natur.401..693G .doi :10.1038/44416 .PMID 10537106 .S2CID 14527573 .^ Stewart, I. (2000)."Mathematics. The Lorenz attractor exists" .Nature .406 (6799):948– 9.doi :10.1038/35023206 PMID 10984036 . ^ "Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart" .^ Holmes, Philip."Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaos and What Shape Is a Snowflake? Magical Numbers in Nature" (PDF) .Notices of the AMS .49 :1392– 1396. ^ Nahin, Paul J. (2012). "In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Ian Stewart, Basic Books, New York, 2012. $26.99 (342 pp.). ISBN 978-0-465-02973-0".Physics Today .65 (9):52– 53.doi :10.1063/PT.3.1720 .ISSN 0031-9228 .^ Shepherd, Jessica (8 June 2009),"The magic numbers: Professor Ian Stewart persuades Jessica Shepherd that maths can be fun – with a bit of help from Terry Pratchett" ,The Guardian
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