Mathematics offers new and sometimes startling perspectives on evolution and how patterns of inheritance and population work out over time-scales ranging from millions to hundreds of years. Stewart explores these and a whole range of pertinent issues.

A treasure trove of mathematical oddities, including games, puzzles, facts, numbers and delightful mathematical nibbles for the curious and adventurous mind.

Ian Stewart presents a mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, mathematical jokes and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past.

There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. This book explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context of mathematics and science as a whole.

Like its wildly popular predecessors 'Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities' and 'Hoard of Mathematical Treasures', this book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and conundrums, packed with trademark humour and numerous illustrations.

Vivid accounts of the lives of 25 of the world's greatest mathematicians with clear descriptions of their far-reaching discoveries

In this book, Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty, which lurks in every consideration of the future. Touching on gaming, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.