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Author(s): Ian Stewart [1] The historically uneasy relationship between biology and mathematics has improved markedly in recent years, as it has become increasingly clear that our understanding of biological systems [...]

Author(s): Jack Cohen [1]; Ian Stewart [1] Science currently knows of only one life-bearing world, but our sample is biased, because it is the world we live on. As we [...]

Author(s): Ian Stewart Author Affiliations: More than stats to dice throwing In his review of my book Do Dice Play God? , Andrew Gelman focuses on sections covering his own [...]

Discovery can't afford to knap.Discovery can't afford to knap., Author(s): Ian StewartAuthor Affiliations:Blue sky research The sun beat down like a hammer.Stoneseeker scoured the base of the cliff, looking for rock samples to take back to the elders. It [...]

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The primary gleamed benignly against a background dusted with stars. From the inner system it would have blazed angrily in the sky, but this planet was sufficiently distant to be [...]

Author(s): Ian Stewart [1] Rufus Jaeger looked out from the platform at a sea of faces. Every seat was full, and dozens of people were sitting on stairs and lining [...]

Author(s): Ian Stewart [1] A central problem in modern physics is to find effective methods for quantizing classical dynamical systems -- modifying the classical equations to incorporate the effects of [...]

When Andrew Gordon was crossing the railway lines and failed to notice the approaching InterCity express, he didn't have time to think about death. But if there had been time, [...]

Author(s): Ian Stewart [1] It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science Granta: 2002. 224 pp. £20, $25 When Robert Recorde invented the equals sign he justified his choice [...]

The Laplace operator is at the core of classical theories of heat, light, sound, magnetism, gravitation, fluid mechanics and electricity. Krzysztof Burdzy and Wendelin Werner have tackled the so-called hot spots conjecture, showing that the expected answer is wrong, based on physical insight about the geometry of bicycle wheels.