Ian Stewart (mathematician)

Ian Stewart (* September 24, 1945 ) is a British mathematician and taught as a professor at the University of Warwick.

Biography

Stewart studied at Cambridge ( bachelor's degree in mathematics) and at the University of Warwick, where he received his doctorate in 1969 with Brian Hartley ( Subideals of Liealgebras, published in Mathematische Zeitschrift Bd.111, 1969, p.301 ). He is a professor and director of the "Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick " (MAC @ W ) at the University of Warwick and held a visiting professorships in Germany (1974 ), New Zealand (1976 ) and the USA ( University of Connecticut 1977-78, University of Houston 1983-84 ). He is also a professor at the University of Houston.

Stewart wrote scholarly textbooks and monographs such as " Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory" ( with Martin Golubitsky and David Schaeffer ) and " Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications " (with Tim Poston ) on catastrophe theory ( and their mathematical environment such as singularity theory and bifurcation theory ). He is mainly concerned with Lie algebras, the theory of dynamical systems, in particular from the point of symmetry. Be particularly interested in the connections to applications in chaos theory (including control of chaos, anti- chaos) and biology (animal locomotion mechanisms, pattern formation in biology ).

But he is best known for his popular writings on mathematics, including journal articles, among others, for New Scientist and Scientific American and Discover. From 1990 to 2001 he wrote the " Mathematical Recreations " column " in Scientific American (in total up to now 96 columns plus another 57 for the European and Japanese editions ). It occurs in the UK and the USA on a lot on the radio and television.

He has also published books as His journal articles. "The Symmetry Perspective" ( with Martin Golubitsky ) won the 2001 " Ferran Sunyer Balaguer I Prize of the Institut d' Estudis Catalans " in Spain. He worked on the new edition of the well-known introduction to the mathematics of Richard Courant and Robbins. He also serves as science fiction author. So far, 19 science fiction short stories have been published by him in Omni, Analog and Interzone. " Wheeler ", a science fiction novel written by Jack Cohen, was published by Warner Aspect in the U.S. and by Earthlight in the UK.

With the fantasy author Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen, he also wrote "The Science of Discworld " ( German: " The Science of Discworld "), which is 13 weeks in a row in the top 10 of the English " Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller list " and held for a Hugo Award " was nominated by the World Science Fiction Convention " in Chicago. With the continuation of "The Science of Discworld II: The Globe " the three of them achieved a similar success. In German this book initially appeared under the title " The Science of Discworld II", later named " The philosophers of the round world." Meanwhile, the English edition of the third part, " The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch" is ( " Darwin and the gods of the Discworld " ) published. Stewart's book " flutter country " made it among the top 20 of the "Independent Bestseller List" in the United States.

Stewart held the famous 1997 Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution, and in 1995 he received the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society for his contributions to the popularization of science. He holds honorary doctorates from Westminster, lions, the Open University and Kingston. He was elected " Fellow of the Royal Society " in 2001.

His doctoral counts Jeremy Gray.

Quotes

" The true mathematician not juggle with numbers, but with concepts. "

Bibliography

Reference Books

  • Lie Algebras, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics Vol 127, 1970
  • Tim Poston: Catastrophe theory and its applications, Dover 1996
  • Martin Golubitsky, David Schaeffer: Singularities and groups in bifurcation theory, 2 volumes, Springer, 1985, 1988
  • With Martin Golubitsky: The symmetry perspective: from equilibrium to chaos in phase space and physical space, Birkhäuser, Perspectives in Mathematics 2002
  • David Tall: Algebraic Number Theory, Chapman and Hall 1979 3rd edition as Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem in 2002 AKPeters
  • David Tall: Complex Analysis, Cambridge University Press 1997
  • Galois Theory, Chapman and Hall 1998, 2004
  • With Ralph Amayo: Infinite dimensional Lie algebras, Leiden, Noordhoff 1974
  • Robin Jones, Clive Maynard: The Art of Lisp Programming, Springer 1990

Introductions to the mathematics

  • Concepts of modern mathematics, Penguin 1980, Dover 1995
  • Why Mathematics? An answer in letters. Spectrum Verlag 2007 (English original: Letters to a young mathematician, Basic Books 2006)
  • From Here to Infinity - a guide to today 's mathematics, Oxford University Press, 1996 ( reprint of The Problems of Mathematics )
  • Math problems, issues, questions, Akademie Verlag, Birkhauser 1990 (English: The Problems of Mathematics, Penguin)
  • Appendix in the revised edition of Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins: What is Mathematics, Springer Verlag 1996

Popular Science Books

  • With Martin Golubitsky: Thinks God symmetrical?: The Eben Mass in mathematics and natural, Birkhauser 1993 ( English: . Fearful Symmetry Is God a geometer, Penguin 1993? )
  • Game, set and match in mathematics, Insel Verlag 1997 ( English: Game, Set and Math - Enigmas and Conundrums, Blackwell, 1989, Penguin 1991)
  • Plays God Roulette?. Chaos in Mathematics, Birkhauser, 1990, Insel Verlag, 1993 ( in English: Does God play dice, Penguin 1997? )
  • The Magical Maze - seeing the world through mathematical eyes, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, Wiley 1998
  • Brainteaser: 30 mathematical puzzles, Piper 2008 ( English original: The Mayor of Ugglyville 's Dilemma )
  • Jack Cohen: Figments of Reality - the evolution of the curious mind, Cambridge University Press 1995
  • Pentagonien, Andromeda and the combed - ball 50 mathematical short stories, spectrum Verlag 2004 (English original: Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into, Freeman 1992, prior to German and published separately as The hiding of Andromeda, The combed Ball, The Journey after Pentagonien in the spectrum publishing )
  • New wonders of the world of mathematics, Piper 2009 (English original: How to cut a cake, Oxford University Press 2006)
  • The power of symmetry, spectrum Verlag 2008 (English original: Why Beauty is truth, Basic Books 2007)
  • Professor Stewart's Cabinet of mathematical curiosities, Profile Books 2008
  • Life's other secret - the new mathematics of the living world, Wiley 1998
  • Flat land, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50179-6, rororo 2004 ( English original: Flatter country, MacMillan, Perseus 2001)
  • The wonderful world of Mathematics, published by Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3- 492-04770 -X (English original: Math Hysteria fun and games with mathematics, Oxford University Press 2004)
  • The numbers of the nature, range of academic Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-8274-0242-5 (English original: Nature's Numbers, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995)
  • Jack Cohen: Chaos and Anti- Chaos - an outlook on the science of the 21st century, Byblos Verlag 1995, German Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-423-33003-1 (English original: The Collapse of Chaos - discovering symmetry in a complex world, Viking 1994, Penguin 1995)
  • The mystery of the snowflake. The mathematics of nature. Spectrum Verlag 2007 (English original: What Shape 's a Snowflake )
  • Jack Cohen Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life, 2nd edition published under the title What Does a Martian Look Like? The Science of Extraterrestrial Life, Ebury Press 2002

Science Fiction

  • Wheelers. Earthlight Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-743-42902-8 ( with Jack Cohen ).
  • Heaven. Warner Books, New York 2004, ISBN 0-446-52983-4 ( with Jack Cohen ).
  • The Science of Discworld ( "The Science of Discworld "). Piper Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-28616-9 ( with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett ).
  • The philosophers of the round world. More of the Science of Discworld ( "The Science of Discworld 2 - The Globe "). Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-28621-3 (former Title Save the Round World Heyne, 2003 ISBN 3-453-86174-4; along with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett ).
  • Darwin and the gods of the Discworld ( "The Science of Discworld 3 - Darwin 's Watch "). Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-26622-2 ( with Jack Cohen and Terry Pratchett ).
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