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Author:Ian Stewart
Adam Ferguson's Later Writings: New Letters and an Essay on the French Revolution
This volume will publish for the first time thirty-six, until now, unpublished letters, as well as a new essay on the French Revolution, by the moral philosopher, historian and man-of-letters Adam Ferguson (1723-1816). A major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson has been one...- $110.00
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Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem
Updated to reflect current research, Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem, Fourth Edition introduces fundamental ideas of algebraic numbers and explores one of the most intriguing stories in the history of mathematics--the quest for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. The authors use...- $54.95
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Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem
Updated to reflect current research, Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem, Fourth Edition introduces fundamental ideas of algebraic numbers and explores one of the most intriguing stories in the history of mathematics--the quest for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. The authors use...- $99.95
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
A prize-winning popular science writer uses mathematical modeling to explain the cosmos. In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and...- $19.99
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and...- $46.99
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Complex Analysis
This new edition of a classic textbook develops complex analysis from the established theory of real analysis by emphasising the differences that arise as a result of the richer geometry of the complex plane. Key features of the authors' approach are to use simple...- $42.99
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Concepts of Modern Mathematics
Some years ago, new math took the country's classrooms by storm. Based on the abstract, general style of mathematical exposition favored by research mathematicians, its goal was to teach students not just to manipulate numbers and formulas, but to grasp the underlying mathematical concepts....- $16.95
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Cows in the Maze: And Other Mathematical Explorations
Following on the success of his books Math Hysteria and How to Cut a Cake, Ian Stewart is back with more stories and puzzles that are as quirky as they are fascinating, and each from the cutting edge of the world of mathematics. From...- $19.95
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Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
A celebrated mathematician explores how math helps us make sense of the unpredictableWe would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or if...- $28.00
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Does God Play Dice?, Second Edition
Author: Ian StewartISBN-10: 0631232516ISBN-13: 9780631232513Publisher: Wiley-BlackwellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2002Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.48w x 1.22dAbout the AuthorIan Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is an active research mathematician with over 140...- $28.00
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Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?
This fascinating study explores a fundamental paradox behind the patterns of the natural world, in which symmetrical causes lead to asymmetrical effects. Lesser and greater patterns--the structure of subatomic particles, a tiger's stripes, the shapes of clouds, and the vibrations of the stars--are produced...- $14.95
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Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Peppered with wit and controversial topics, this is a refreshing new look at the co-evolution of mind and culture. Bestselling authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen (The Collapse of Chaos, 1994) eloquently argue that our minds evolved within an inextricable link with culture and...- $29.99
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Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So
In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England. As both a witty satire of Victorian society and a means by which to explore the fourth dimension, Flatland remains a tour de force....- $17.99
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From Here to Infinity
In this retitled and revised edition of The Problems of Mathematics, renowned mathematician Ian Stewart gives math buffs and non-technical readers--as well as students of the subject--the perfect guide to today's mathematics. This challenging and fascinating book includes three new chapters that cover the...- $18.95
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Galois Theory
Since 1973, Galois theory has been educating undergraduate students on Galois groups and classical Galois theory. In Galois Theory, Fifth Edition, mathematician and popular science author Ian Stewart updates this well-established textbook for today's algebra students. New to the Fifth Edition Reorganised and revised...- $66.95
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Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrums
Twelve essays take a playful approach to the subject, exploring how to play poker over the telephone without the possibility of cheating, how to distinguish plausible fallacies from unbelievable facts, and how to cope mathematically with contorted worms, drunken tennis players, and snakes that...- $11.95
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How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums
Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! Here are twenty more curious puzzles and fantastical mathematical stories from one of the world's most popular and accessible writers on mathematics. This is a strange world of never-ending chess games, empires on the moon,...- $17.95
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
The seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it. Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is...- $18.99
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Infinity: A Very Short Introduction
Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes back to ancient times, with especially important contributions from Euclid, Aristotle, Eudoxus, and Archimedes. The infinitely large (infinite) is intimately related to the...- $11.95
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a Young Mathematician tells readers what Ian Stewart wishes he had known when he was a student and young faculty member. Subjects ranging from the philosophical to the...- $15.99
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Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World
Author: Ian StewartISBN-10: 0471296511ISBN-13: 9780471296515Publisher: WileyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/1999Pages: 308Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.74w x 0.81dAbout the AuthorIAN STEWART, Ph.D., has written or coauthored numerous books, including Does God Play Dice?, Fearful Symmetry, Collapse of Chaos, and Nature's Numbers. In addition, he writes the...- $19.95
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Math Hysteria: Fun and Games with Mathematics
Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! Math Hysteria contains twenty quirky tales of mathematical exploration by one of the world's most popular writers on mathematics. Ian Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an...- $20.99
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Nature's Numbers
It appears to us that the universe is structured in a deeply mathematical way. Falling bodies fall with predictable accelerations. Eclipses can be accurately forecast centuries in advance. Nuclear power plants generate electricity according to well-known formulas. But those examples are the tip of...- $15.99
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most exhilarating oddities from Professor Stewart's legendary...- $17.99
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Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
Opening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and riddles in Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures. With wit and aplomb, Stewart mingles casual puzzles with grander forays into ancient and modern...- $19.99
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Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers
Renowned mathematician Ian Stewart uses remarkable (and some unremarkable) numbers to introduce readers to the beauty of mathematics. At its heart, mathematics is about numbers, our fundamental tools for understanding the world. In Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart offers a delightful introduction to...- $16.99
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Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history's most important mathematicians, showing how they developed on each other's work and built...- $28.00
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Symmetry
Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, showing how it even plays a major role in the current search to unify relativity and quantum theory. Stewart, a respected...- $11.95
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The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious...- $19.99
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The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World
From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them.From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web, from sand dunes to snowflakes, nature is full of patterns underlaid by mathematical principles. In The...- $26.95
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The Dissertation Monkey: The Dissertation Monkey
The Dissertation Monkey is a beautiful one-of-a kind children-styled picture book for anyone who is or knows someone that is thinking about or pursuing an advanced university degree.Author: Ian Stewart, Leonel Diaz, Tomas a. AguirreISBN-10: 1494964961ISBN-13: 9781494964962Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/23/2015Pages: 42Format:...- $15.00
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The Foundations of Mathematics
The transition from school mathematics to university mathematics is seldom straightforward. Students are faced with a disconnect between the algorithmic and informal attitude to mathematics at school, versus a new emphasis on proof, based on logic, and a more abstract development of general concepts,...- $26.95
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The John Benitez Bass Method, Vol. 2: El Sonero del Barrio - A Creative Approach to Salsa
"The John Ben tez Bass Method Volume 2 - El Sonero del Barrio: A Creative Approach To Salsa" is the second in a comprehensive book series documenting the unique playing and teaching methods of five-time GRAMMY Award winning bassist John Ben tez. While its...- $30.00
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The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze--a maze in your head--a maze of ideas, a maze of logic. And that maze in your mind is a...- $16.95
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The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
From a bestselling mathematics author comes this lively recreational math book that takes readers through a playful maze of intriguing math puzzles, from some of the oldest riddles to fun new problems.Author: Ian Stewart, James StewartISBN-10: 047119297XISBN-13: 9780471192978Publisher: WileyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/1998Pages: 268Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize:...- $35.50
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The Mathematics of Life
Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of living beings. Within the past ten years, however, mathematicians have proven that they hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our world -- and ourselves. In The Mathematics...- $19.99
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To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite - New Edition
To Infinity and Beyond explores the idea of infinity in mathematics and art. Eli Maor examines the role of infinity, as well as its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has exercised on the human...- $22.95
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Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action
Selling over 25,000 copies across three editions, this book provides an unrivalled introduction to the core concepts and basic techniques of Transactional Analysis (TA). Ian Stewart guides the reader step-by-step through the successive stages in using TA to create therapeutic change, building understanding of...- $51.00
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Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems
Acclaimed writer and mathematician Ian Stewart investigates history's most important and elusive math problems For every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field's unlimited potential and keep mathematicians looking toward the horizons...- $19.99
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What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world--from technology to health care and beyond. Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find...- $28.00
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Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry
At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to...- $17.99
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