Stewart, Ian (Nicholas)

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STEWART, Ian (Nicholas)

STEWART, Ian (Nicholas). British, b. 1945. Genres: Mathematics/ Statistics, Translations, Graphic Novels. Career: Warwick University, Coventry, England, lecturer, 1969-84, reader, 1984-90, professor of mathematics, 1990-; University of Tuebingen, Humboldt Foundation fellow, 1974; Auckland University, visiting fellow, 1976; University of Connecticut at Storrs, associate professor, 1977-78; University of Illinois at Carbondale, professor, 1978; University of Houston, professor, 1983-84; writer. Appearances on BBC-Radio and TV. Consultant to New Scientist. Publications: (with J. Jaworski) Nut-Crackers, 1971; Galois Theory, 1973; (with R.K. Amayo) Infinite-dimensional Lie Algebras, 1974; Concepts of Modern Mathematics, 1975; (with Jaworski) Get Knotted!, 1976; (with D.O. Tall) The Foundations of Mathematics, 1977; (with T. Poston) Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications, 1978; (with D.O. Tall) Algebraic Number Theory, 1979; (with others) Aspects of Abstract Algebra, 1980; (with Jaworski) Seven Years of MANIFOLD: 1968-1980, 1981; (with D.O. Tall) Complex Analysis, 1983; The Problems of Mathematics, 1987; (with M. Golubitsky and D. Schaeffer) Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory, Vol. 2, 1988; Does God Play Dice?: The Mathematics of Chaos, 1989; Game, Set, and Math, 1989; (with M. Golubitsky) Fearful Symmetry-Is God a Geometer?, 1992; Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into…, 1992; (with J. Cohen) The Collapse of Chaos, 1994; Nature's Numbers 1995; From Here to Infinity, 1996; (with J. Cohen) Figments of Reality, 1997; The Magical Maze, 1997; Life's Other Secret, 1998; (with T. Pratchett and J. Cohen) The Science of Discworld, 1999, vol. 2: The Globe, 2002; (with J. Cohen) Wheelers, 2000; Flatterland, 2001; The Annotated Flatland, 2001; What Shape Is a Snowflake?, 2001; (with J. Cohen) Evolving the Alien (in US as What Does a Martian Look Like?), 2002; (with M. Golubitsky) The Symmetry Perspective, 2002; (with D.O. Tall) Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem, 2002. COMIC BOOKS (and illustrator): Oh Catastrophe!, 1982; Les Fractals, 1982; An, les beaux groupes!, 1983. Address: Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England. Online address: [email protected]

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