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Ian Stewart (mathematician)

Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA (born 24 September 1945)[3] is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer.[4] He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England.

Education and early life[edit]

Stewart was born in 1945 in Folkestone, England. While in the sixth form at Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone he came to the attention of the mathematics teacher. The teacher had Stewart sit mock A-level examinations without any preparation along with the upper-sixth students; Stewart was placed first in the examination. He was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate student of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he studied the Mathematical Tripos and obtained a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1966. Stewart then went to the University of Warwick where his PhD on Lie algebras was supervised by Brian Hartley and completed in 1969.[5]

Do Dice Play God? The Mathematics of Uncertainty (2019), Profile Books.

What's the use ?: How mathematics shapes everyday life? (2021), Basic Books.

What's the use ?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (2021), Profile Books.

Personal life[edit]

Stewart married Avril, in 1970.[2] They met at a party at a house that Avril was renting while she trained as a nurse. They have two sons.[2] He lists his recreations as science fiction, painting, guitar, keeping fish, geology, Egyptology and snorkelling.[2]

at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Ian Stewart

personal webpage

Michael Faraday prize winners 2004–1986

Directory of Fellows of the Royal Society: Ian Stewart

at Debrett's People of Today

Prof Ian Stewart

What does a Martian look like? Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart set out to find the answers

Ian Stewart on space exploration by NASA

one of the Millennium mathematics problems Archived 8 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine

Ian Stewart on Minesweeper

Press release about Terry Pratchett "Wizard Making" of Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart at the University of Warwick

Interview with Ian Stewart on the Science of Discworld series

Audio Interview with Ian Stewart on April 25, 2007 from WINA's Charlottesville Right Now

Podcast series with Ian Stewart on the history of symmetry

initially published in: Scientific American, Feb 1993

A Partly True Story

Ideas Roadshow, 2013

"The Joy of Mathematics – A conversation with Ian Stewart"

Chalkdust Magazine, 2016

"In conversation with Ian Stewart"