Prof Ian Stewart's Biography

Prof Ian Stewart's Professional Career

Career

Univ of Warwick: lectr 1969-84, reader 1984-90, prof 1990-2009, emeritus prof 2009-; Humboldt fell Tübingen Univ 1974, visting fell Univ of Auckland 1976, assoc prof Univ of Connecticut Storrs 1977-78, prof Univ of Southern Illinois Carbondale 1978, prof Univ of Houston 1983-84; Gresham prof of geometry Gresham Coll 1994-98; delivered televised Royal Instn Christmas Lectures 1997; Michael Faraday Medal Royal Soc 1995, Jt Policy Bd for Mathematics Communications Award 1999, Gold Medal IMA 2000, Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize Institut d'Estudis Catalans 2001, Chaos Award Liege 2001, Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technol AAAS 2001, Zeeman Medal 2010; Hon DSc: Univ of Westminster 1998, Université Catholique de Louvain 2000, Kingston Univ 2003; fell AAAS 2001, FRS 2001

Prof Ian Stewart's Publications

Books and Publications

Nut-Crackers (with J Jaworski, 1971), Concepts of Modern Mathematics (1975), Get Knotted! (with J Jaworski, 1976), Catastrophe Theory and its Applications (with T Poston, 1978), The Problems of Mathematics (1987), Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory (with M Golubitsky and D Schaeffer, 1988), Game, Set and Math (1989), Fearful Symmetry (with M Golubitsky, 1992), Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into (1992), The Collapse of Chaos (with J Cohen, 1994), Nature's Numbers (1995), From Here to Infinity (1996), Figments of Reality (with J Cohen, 1997), The Magical Maze (1997), Life's Other Secret (1998), The Science of Discworld (with Terry Pratchett, qv, and J Cohen, 1999), Wheelers (with J Cohen, 2000), Flatterland (2000), What Shape is a Snowflake? (2001), The Annotated Flatland (2001), The Symmetry Perspective (with M Golubitsky, 2002), The Science of Discworld 2: The Globe (with Terry Pratchett and J Cohen, 2002), Evolving the Alien (with J Cohen, 2002), Math Hysteria (2004), Heaven (with J Cohen, 2004), The Science of Discworld 3: Darwin's Watch (with Terry Pratchett and J Cohen, 2005), The Mayor of Uglyville's Dilemma (2005), Letters to a Young Mathematician (2006), How to Cut a Cake (2006), Why Beauty is Truth (2007), Taming the Infinite (2008), Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities (2008), Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (2009), Cows in the Maze (2010), Mathematics of Life (2011), Seventeen Equations that Changes the World (2012)

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