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Ian Stewart (mathematician)

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Ian Nicholas Stewart (born 24 September 1945) is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. [1]

58 relations: Academic publishing, Alexander Dewdney, Bachelor of Arts, Brian Hartley, Catastrophe theory, Christopher Zeeman, Churchill College, Cambridge, Concepts of Modern Mathematics, Debrett's, Discworld, Doctor of Philosophy, Does God Play Dice?, Douglas Hofstadter, Emeritus, Evolving the Alien, Fellow of the Royal Society, Figments of Reality, Flatland, Flatterland, From Here to Infinity (book), GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom), Heaven (Stewart and Cohen novel), Herbert Robbins, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, IPad, Jack Cohen (scientist), James Collins (bioengineer), Letters to a Young Mathematician, Lie algebra, London Mathematical Society, Manifold (magazine), Martin Gardner, Mathematical Tripos, Michael Faraday Prize, Mobile app, Oxford University Press, Popular science, Profile Books, Richard Courant, Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Scientific American, Sixth form, Terry Pratchett, The Collapse of Chaos, The Guardian, The Mathematics of Life, The Science of Discworld, The Science of Discworld II: The Globe, The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day, ..., Touchpress, University of Cambridge, University of Connecticut, University of Houston, University of Warwick, What Is Mathematics?, Wheelers (novel), Why Beauty Is Truth. Expand index (8 more) »

Academic publishing

Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship.

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Alexander Dewdney

Alexander Keewatin Dewdney (born August 5, 1941, in London, Ontario) is a Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Brian Hartley

Brian Hartley (15 May 1939 – 8 October 1994) was a British mathematician specialising in group theory.

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Catastrophe theory

In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry.

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Christopher Zeeman

Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS (4 February 1925 – 13 February 2016), was a British mathematician, known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory.

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Churchill College, Cambridge

Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Concepts of Modern Mathematics

Concepts of Modern Mathematics is a 1975 book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about recent developments in mathematics.

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Debrett's

Debrett's is a professional coaching company, publisher and authority on etiquette and behaviour, founded in 1769 with the publication of the first edition of The New Peerage.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Does God Play Dice?

Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaos is a non-fiction book about chaos theory written by British mathematician Ian Stewart.

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Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

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Emeritus

Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.

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Evolving the Alien

Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (published in the US, and UK second edition as What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life) is a 2002 popular science book about xenobiology by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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Figments of Reality

Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind (1997) is a book about the evolution of the intelligent and conscious human mind by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.

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Flatland

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co.

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Flatterland

Flatterland is a 2001 book written by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about non-Euclidean geometry.

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From Here to Infinity (book)

From Here to Infinity: A Guide to Today's Mathematics, a 1996 book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart, is a guide to modern mathematics for the general reader.

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GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom)

The General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level, or A Level, is a main school leaving qualification in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

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Heaven (Stewart and Cohen novel)

Heaven is a science fiction novel written by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

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Herbert Robbins

Herbert Ellis Robbins (January 12, 1915 – February 12, 2001) was an American mathematician and statistician.

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Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics (the other main one being the London Mathematical Society).

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IPad

iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system.

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Jack Cohen (scientist)

Jack Cohen, FRSB (born 19 September 1933 in Norwich, United Kingdom) is a British reproductive biologist also known for his science books and involvement with science fiction.

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James Collins (bioengineer)

James J. Collins (born June 26, 1965) is an American bioengineer, and the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT.

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Letters to a Young Mathematician

Letters to a Young Mathematician is a 2006 book by Ian Stewart, and is part of Basic Books' Art of Mentoring series.

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Lie algebra

In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced "Lee") is a vector space \mathfrak g together with a non-associative, alternating bilinear map \mathfrak g \times \mathfrak g \rightarrow \mathfrak g; (x, y) \mapsto, called the Lie bracket, satisfying the Jacobi identity.

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London Mathematical Society

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)).

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Manifold (magazine)

Manifold was a mathematical magazine published at the University of Warwick.

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

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Mathematical Tripos

The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

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Michael Faraday Prize

The Michael Faraday Prize is awarded by the Royal Society of London for "excellence in communicating science to UK audiences".

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Mobile app

A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.

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Profile Books

Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996.

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Richard Courant

Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German American mathematician.

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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825, missing 1939–42 because of the Second World War.

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Scientific American

Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.

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Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form (sometimes referred to as Key Stage 5) represents the final 1-3 years of secondary education (high school), where students (typically between 16 and 18 years of age) prepare for their A-level (or equivalent) examinations.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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The Collapse of Chaos

The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World (1994) is a book about complexity theory and the nature of scientific explanation written by biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Mathematics of Life

The Mathematics of Life is a 2011 popular science book by mathematician Ian Stewart, on the increasing role of mathematics in biology.

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The Science of Discworld

The Science of Discworld is a 1999 book by novelist Terry Pratchett and popular science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

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The Science of Discworld II: The Globe

The Science of Discworld II: The Globe is a 2002 book written by British novelist Terry Pratchett and science writers Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

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The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005) is a book set on the Discworld, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

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The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day

The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day is a book set on the Discworld, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

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Touchpress

Touchpress has now become Touch Press Inc. The information in this article refers to the original Touchpress only.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land grant, National Sea Grant and National Space Grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States.

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University of Houston

The University of Houston (UH) is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Houston System.

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University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a plate glass research university in Coventry, England.

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What Is Mathematics?

What Is Mathematics? is a mathematics book written by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, published in England by Oxford University Press.

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Wheelers (novel)

Wheelers is a science fiction novel written by English mathematician Ian Stewart and reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, figures notable for both their personal scholarly work and numerous individual and collaborative contributions to the world of science fiction.

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Why Beauty Is Truth

Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry is a 2007 book by Ian Stewart.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stewart_(mathematician)

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