IAN STEWART

Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious ch...

School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years - now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some hidden gems of logic, geometry and probability - like how to extract a cherr...

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who a...

Para Ian Stewart las matemáticas son una fuente maravillosa de entretenimiento y de placer intelectual. Las matemáticas constituyen una fuente maravillosa de entretenimiento y placer intelectual como demuestra este libro del profesor Ian Stewart, matemático notable y divulgador de fama internacional, presentado a través de su “gabinete de curi...

Cartas a una joven matemática no es sólo una obra que dará placer intelectual y estético a sus lectores, sino también un magnífico útil para encarar el futuro. Utilizando el formato de “cartas”, dirigidas a Meg, una joven de talento que se plantea estudiar matemáticas en la uni-ersidad y acaso dedicarse a ellas, el renombrado investigador y di...