Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart was born in Folkestone, England, in 1945. He graduated from the Mathematics Department of the University of Cambridge in 1966 and completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Warwick in 1969. He has served as a researcher at universities in West Germany, New Zealand, and the USA. His research field is nonlinear dynamical systems and bifurcation theory. He regularly contributes to magazines such as "Scientific American," "New Scientist," "Nature," "Pour la Science," and "Economist," as well as newspapers like "Times" and "Guardian." He also hosts "mathematical" programs on the BBC. He is a prolific writer, with his works translated into twelve languages. He is the European editor of the "Mathematical Intelligencer" and a member of the American Association of Science Fiction Writers. He is considered one of the most distinguished cartoonist-authors of popular science works. His works, similar to "Does God Play Dice?", have appeared in Analog and Omni. He resides in Coventry with his wife and their two sons.