Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart FRS is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of

Warwick and a leading popularizer of mathematics. He is author or coauthor of

over 200 research papers on pattern formation, chaos, network dynamics, and

biomathematics. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2001, and has

served on Council, its governing body. He has five honorary doctorates.

He has published more than 120 books including Why Beauty is Truth, Professor

Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, Calculating the Cosmos,

Significant Figures, and the four-volume series The Science of Discworld with

Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen. He has also written the science fiction novels

Wheelers and Heaven with Jack Cohen, and The Living Labyrinth and Rock Star with

Tim Poston.

He wrote the Mathematical Recreations column for Scientific American from 1990

to 2001. He has made 90 television appearances and 450 radio broadcasts, most of

them about mathematics for the general public, and has delivered hundreds of

public lectures on mathematics.

His awards include the Royal Society’s Faraday Medal, the Gold Medal of the

Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, the Zeeman Medal (IMA and London

Mathematical Society), the Lewis Thomas Prize (Rockefeller University), and the

Euler Book Prize (Mathematical Association of America).