Mathematician:Ian Nicholas Stewart

Mathematician
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

Publications

 * 1972: Galois Theory (2nd edition 1989, 3rd edition 2004)
 * 1975: (2nd edition 1981, 3rd edition 1995)
 * 1976: (with )
 * 1978: Catastrophe Theory and its Applications (with )
 * 1979: Algebraic Number Theory (2nd edition 1987) (with )
 * 1983: (with ) ISBN 0-521-24513-3
 * 1987:
 * 1989:
 * 1991: Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrums
 * 1992: (with )
 * 1992: Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into ... (2nd Edition 2004)
 * 1992: ISBN 0-19-286148-4
 * 1994: (with ) (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.)
 * 1995:
 * 1997: Figments of Reality (with )
 * 1998: The Magical Maze ISBN 0-471-35065-6
 * 1999: The Science of Discworld (with and Terry Pratchett)
 * 1999: Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World
 * 2000: Wheelers (with ) (fiction)
 * 2001:
 * 2002: Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem (3rd Edition of Algebraic Number Theory of 1979) (with ) ISBN 1-56881-119-5
 * 2002: The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (with and Terry Pratchett)
 * 2002: Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (with ) ISBN 0-09-187927-2
 * 2004: What Does a Martian Look Like? The Science of Extraterrestrial Life (with ) (Second edition of Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life)
 * 2004:
 * 2004: Heaven (with ) ISBN 0-446-52983-4 (fiction)
 * 2004: Math Hysteria ISBN 0-19-861336-9
 * 2005: The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (with 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:
 * 2008:
 * 2009:
 * 2011:
 * 2012:
 * 2013: The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (with and Terry Pratchett)
 * 2014:
 * 2015: