Book:Ian Stewart/The Problems of Mathematics

Ian Stewart: The Problems of Mathematics

Published $\text {1987}$, Oxford University Press

ISBN 0-19-289182-0

Subject Matter

• History of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Mathematics

Contents

Foreword (James Joseph Sylvester)

List of Figures

Interview with a mathematician

1 The nature of mathematics

2 The price of primality

3 Marginal interest

4 The neglected book of Euclid

5 Parallel thinking

6 The miraculous jar

7 Ghosts of departed quantities

8 The duellist and the monster

9 Much ado about knotting

10 The purple wallflower

11 Squarerooting the unsquarerootable

12 Strumpet fortune

13 The mathematics of nature

14 Oh! Catastrophe!

15 The patterns of chaos

16 The two-and-a-halfth dimension

17 The lonely wave

18 Dixit Algorizmi

19 The limits of computability

20 A tour of the minefield

Further Reading

Index

Further Editions

• 1992: Ian Stewart: The Problems of Mathematics (2nd ed.)