Ian Stewart
Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS (born 24 September 1945) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England, and a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by the original uploader, DiderotWasRight at English...
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Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS (born 24 September 1945) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England, and a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by the original uploader, DiderotWasRight at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Birth date: September 24, 1945
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Series: Science of the Discworld #1 Although I've read this book before, this was my first read of the updated version. I haven't done an exhaustive comparison, but it looks like a few of the wizard sections were shuffled around to make room for a couple extra chapters, one of which was the obviou...
Murder by Death and BrokenTune have essentially summed up a lot of the points I'd want to make about The Science of Discworld. (What a misnomer that title is, incidentally -- and not only because the science part is really concerned with "Roundworld," i.e., our world ... the science part in this bo...
"Ook?" I usually try to start my reviews with a pertinent quote from the relevant book, but I was somewhat eager to return my copy to the library and I forgot to copy out a quotation for my review. However, it is somewhat appropriate to start the summary of my thoughts about The Science of Discworl...
This book. I'm shaking my head over this book. It boils down to three things: The Discworld portion of the book, involving the Unseen University, is excellent; 4 stars. Pratchett's writing is always good, even when it's average for him, and the UU storyline doesn't disappoint. I loved the ver...
TITLE: The Science of Discworld AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen PUBLICATION DATE: Revised edition published in 2002 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780091886578 ____________________________________ From the blurb: "When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of ...
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