Mathematician:Ian Nicholas Stewart

Ian Nicholas Stewart is an English mathematician who has made considerable contributions to the field of catastrophe theory.

He is more famous, however, as a popular writer and publicist of mathematics.

As one of the contributors to the Science of Discworld series, he was created an honorary Wizard of Unseen University. Contrary to popular belief, he is not in fact Scottish.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 24 September 1945, Folkestone, England

Books and Papers

 * Fearful Symmetry
 * Figments of Reality (with Jack Cohen)
 * Life's Other Secret
 * Nature's Numbers
 * The Problems of Mathematics (later republished as From Here to Infinity)
 * Wheelers (with Jack Cohen) (fiction)
 * Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (with Jack Cohen) (Second edition published as What Does a Martian Look Like? The Science of Extraterrestrial Life)
 * 1972: Galois Theory (2nd edition 1989, 3rd edition 2004) ISBN 1-58488-393-6
 * 1975: Concepts of Modern Mathematics (2nd edition 1981, 3rd edition 1995)
 * 1978: Catastrophe Theory and its Applications (with Tim Poston) ISBN 0-27301029-8
 * 1979: Algebraic Number Theory (2nd edition 1987) (with David Tall)
 * 1983: Complex Analysis (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Plane) (with David Tall) ISBN 0-521-24513-3
 * 1989: Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos
 * 1991: Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrums
 * 1992: Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into ... (2nd Edition 2004)
 * 1994: The Collapse of Chaos (with Jack Cohen) (the 2000 edition has a plug on the cover by Terry Pratchett, which, because of the cover design, makes it look as though the book itself is by Terry Pratchett.)
 * 1998: The Magical Maze ISBN 0-471-35065-6
 * 1999: The Science of Discworld (with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett)
 * April 2001: Flatterland ISBN 0-7382-0442-0
 * 2002: Algebraic number theory and Fermat's last theorem 3rd Edition (with David Tall) ISBN 1-56881-119-5
 * 2002: The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett)
 * 2004:
 * May 2004: Heaven (with Jack Cohen) ISBN 0-446-52983-4 (fiction)
 * June 2004: Math Hysteria ISBN 0-19-861336-9
 * 2005: The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett)
 * May 2006: Letters to a Young Mathematician ISBN 0-465-08231-9
 * 2007: Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry ISBN 0-46508-236-X
 * 2008: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities ISBN 1-84668-064-6
 * 2009: Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures ISBN 978 1 84668 292 6