Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives...

"Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians" von Ian Stewart ist eine faszinierende Sammlung biographischer Skizzen, die das Leben und Werk einiger der bedeutendsten Mathematiker in der Geschichte beleuchten. Das...

From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere -- and they are fundamental to everyday life.Seventeen Equations that Changed the World examines seventeen...

A revised and updated edition of this book which sets out to analyse chaos and its implications, ten years after its original discovery. Illus. von Stewart, Ian

In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World von Stewart, Ian

Was machen eigentlich Mathematiker? Den ganzen Tag nur rechnen und Gleichungen lösen und Formeln ableiten und Funktionen darstellen? Geht es in der Mathematik ausschließlich um Zahlen? Wie kommt man auf die Idee, Mathematik zu studieren,...

Professor Ian Stewart explores the history of mathematics and uncertainty. Filled with counter-intuitive solutions which are bound to spark conversations. von Stewart, Ian

Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem von Stewart, Ian

What's the Use? von Stewart, Ian

A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZEWhy do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but...

What's the Use? von Stewart, Ian