Ian Stewart
Mathematician and popular science writer
Ian Stewart is a British mathematician and a professor emeritus at the University of Warwick. He writes popular books that bring mathematics to general readers.
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British Born 1945 in Kent, United Kingdom
About Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart was born in 1945 and is a British mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Warwick, and he has belonged to the Royal Society as a Fellow since 2001. His research interests include Lie algebras, dynamical systems, chaos theory and biology. He has published more than 120 books, including In Pursuit of the Unknown. With Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen he wrote The Science of Discworld, a series of four volumes, and he has also written science fiction. From 1990 to 2001 he ran the Mathematical Recreations column in Scientific American. He has appeared on television 90 times, given 450 radio broadcasts and delivered hundreds of public lectures, mostly on mathematics for general audiences. His honors include the Royal Society's Faraday Medal and the Euler Book Prize.