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James Drewry Stewart, MSC (March 29, 1941 – December 3, 2014) was a Canadian mathematician, violinist, and professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University. Stewart is best known for his series of calculus textbooks used for high school, college, and university-level courses.
Ian Stewart belongs to a very small, very exclusive club of popular science and mathematics writers who are worth reading today. Robert Schaefer of New York Journal of Books [ 3 ] Kirkus Reviews said Stewart "succeed[ed] in illuminating many but not all of some very difficult ideas", and that the book "will enchant math enthusiasts as well as ...
Following the life and work of famous mathematicians from antiquity to the present, Stewart traces mathematics' developing handling of the concept of symmetry.One of the first takeaways, established in the preface of this book, is that it dispels the idea of the origins of symmetry in geometry, as is often the first context in which the term is introduced.
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books. [3] In the book, Stewart traces the history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem (Pythagorean equation) [4] to the equation that transformed twenty-first century financial markets ...
Does God Play Dice: The New Mathematics of Chaos is a non-fiction book about chaos theory written by British mathematician Ian Stewart. The book was initially published by Blackwell Publishing in 1989.
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians is a 2017 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books. [1] In the work, Stewart discusses the lives and contributions of 25 figures who are prominent in the history of mathematics. [2]
An Appendix to Euclid's Elements in Seven Books, Containing Forty-two Copper-plates, In Which the Doctrine of Solids, Delivered in the XIth, XIIth, and XVth Books of Euclid, is Illustrated by New-invented Schemes Cut Out of Paste-Board. Watkins. Poinsot, Louis (1810). Mémoire sur les polygones et sur les polyèdres (in French).