1: Walking with Quadrupeds
2: Forward to the Future
3: Back to the Past
4: What Shape is a Teardrop?
5: Tiling Space With Knots
6: The Interrogator's Fallacy
7: Cows in the Maze
8: Knight's Tours on Rectangles
9: The Lore and Lure of Dice
10: Cat's Cradle Calculus Challenge
11: Glass Klein Bottles
12: Cementing Relationships
13: Dances with Dodecahedra
14: Cone with a Twist
15: Most-Perfect Magic Squares
16: It Can't Be Done!
17: Knotting Ventured, Knotting Gained
18: Making Winning Connections
19: Jumping Champions
20: Pursuing Polygonal Privacy
Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, and
Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick. An active
research mathematician, he is also a well-known popularizer of
mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded
the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for furthering the public
understanding of science; his book Nature's Numbers was shortlisted
for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books; and he
delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised
by the BBC. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
His many books include Evolving the Alien (with Jack Cohen), The
Science of
Discworld, What Shape is a Snowflake? , Flatterland, The Magical
Maze, Does God Play Dice? , and How to Cut a Cake.
His easy style...makes the explanation of maths behind black holes,
animal gait and time travel simple to digest.
*Dominic Lenton, Engineering and Technology*
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