Autor Professor Ian Stewart

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PROFESSOR STEWART'S CABINET OF MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITIES 'Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' ALEX BELLOSWhat is the maximum land you can enclose inside a given border?What is the minimum number of…

Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed GBP208 billion to the economy in a single year -- that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16…