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Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA (born 24 September 1945) [3] is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. [4] He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick , England.
Pages in category "Books by Ian Stewart (mathematician)" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically . Natural patterns include symmetries , trees , spirals , meanders , waves , foams , tessellations , cracks and stripes. [ 1 ]
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe by Martin J. Rees; Kinds of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett; Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose by Stephen H. Schneider; Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart; One Renegade Cell: The Origins of Cancer by Robert A. Weinberg; Symbiotic Planet : A New Look at Evolution by ...
Stewart discusses the mathematics behind such topics as population growth, speciation, brain function, chaos theory, game theory, networking, symmetry, and animal coloration, with little recourse to equations. [2] He identifies six revolutions which modernized biology: [3] The invention of the microscope; A systematic means of classifying species
After an introductory chapter The Nature of Mathematics, Stewart devotes each of the following 18 chapters to an exposition of a particular problem that has given rise to new mathematics or an area of research in modern mathematics. Chapter 2 – The Price of Primality – primality tests and integer factorisation
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books. [3] In the book, Stewart traces the history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem (Pythagorean equation) [4] to the equation that transformed twenty-first century financial markets ...
Following the life and work of famous mathematicians from antiquity to the present, Stewart traces mathematics' developing handling of the concept of symmetry.One of the first takeaways, established in the preface of this book, is that it dispels the idea of the origins of symmetry in geometry, as is often the first context in which the term is introduced.