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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics (1995) What is Mathematics? – originally by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, second edition revised by Ian Stewart (1996) From Here to Infinity (1996), originally published as The Problems of Mathematics (1987) Figments of Reality, with Jack Cohen (1997)
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 .
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
Ian Stewart belongs to a very small, very exclusive club of popular science and mathematics writers who are worth reading today. Robert Schaefer of New York Journal of Books [ 3 ] Kirkus Reviews said Stewart "succeed[ed] in illuminating many but not all of some very difficult ideas", and that the book "will enchant math enthusiasts as well as ...
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 ...
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics. ISBN 0-06-093558-8. Paul J. Nahin (2021). In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-22759-7. Dan Rockmore (2006). Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime ...
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.
Just as 2ω is bigger than ω + n for any natural number n, there is a surreal number ω / 2 that is infinite but smaller than ω − n for any natural number n. That is, ω / 2 is defined by ω / 2 = { S ∗ | ω − S ∗} where on the right hand side the notation x − Y is used to mean { x − y : y ∈ Y}.