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Ian Stewart

Taming the Infinite

The Story of Mathematics

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Subtitled, The Story Of Mathematics - From The First Numbers To Chaos Theory. The definitive history of maths, looking at how it has affected society and changed everyday life.

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84724-768-1
  • EAN: 9781847247681
  • Produktnummer: 4755610
  • Verlag: Quercus Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.2 cm 278 g
  • Abbildungen: 100 illustrations
  • Gewicht: 278

Über den Autor


Professor Ian Stewart is a world renowned popularizer of mathematics, having won many awards for furthering public understanding of science, including the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Medal and the Gold Medal of the Institute for Mathematics.He is the author of over 20 popular science and mathematics titles including Does God Play Dice?, Nature's Numbers (shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize), Life's Other Secret and Flatterland, which was in the top 20 Bestseller List in the USA.Professor Stewart is the mathematics consultant for New Scientist, and has been a consultant for Encyclopaedia Britannica. From 1990 to 2001 he wrote the 'Mathematical Recreations' column in Scientific American. He is an active research mathematician with over 160 published papers and is currently Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University where he is Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.

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