Professor Ian Stewart, FRS
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Ian StewartEmeritus Professor of Mathematics and Digital Media Fellow
(for technical publications)
Office: B2.11 |
Research Interests: Dynamical systems, bifurcation theory, pattern formation, biomathematics
Most relevant recent publications:
Stewart I, Golubitsky M, Pivato M, Symmetry groupoids and patterns of synchrony in coupled cell networks. SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems, 2, (2003), 609 - 646
Golubitsky M, Nicol M, Stewart I, Some curious phenomena in coupled cell systems. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 14, (2004), 207 - 236
Golubitsky M, Stewart I, Torok A, Patterns of synchrony in coupled cell networks with multiple arrows. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 4, (2005), 78 - 100
Golubitsky M, Stewart I, Nonlinear Dynamics of Networks: the groupoid formalism. Bulletin of the Americal Mathematical Society, 43, (2006), 305 - 364
Antoneli F, Stewart I, Symmetry and synchrony in coupled cell networks 1: fixed-point spaces, International Journal of Bifuraction and Chaos, 16, (2006), 559 - 577.
Buescu J, Kulczycki M, Stewart I, Liapunov stability and adding machines revisited, Dynamical Systems, 21, (2006), 379 - 384.
Antoneli F, Stewart I, Symmetry and synchrony in coupled cell networks 2: group networks, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 17, (2007), 935 - 951.
Golubitsky M, Stewart I, Shiau LJ, Spatio-temporal symmetries in the disynaptic canal-neck projection, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 67, (2007). [DOI: 10.1137/060667773]
Recent Books
[with T.Pratchett and J.Cohen] The Science of Discworld, Ebury Press 1999.
Flatterland, MacMillan, London 2001.
What Shape is a Snowflake? Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001.
The Annotated Flatland, Perseus Publishing, New York 2001.
[with T Pratchett and J Cohen] The Science of Discworld II: The Globe, Ebury Press, London 2002.
[with J Cohen] What Does a Martian Look Like? Ebury Press, London 2003.
[with T.Pratchett and J.Cohen] The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch, Ebury Press, London 2005.
The Mayor of Uglyville’s Dilemma, Atlantic Books, London 2005.
Letters to a Young Mathematician, Basic Books, New York 2006.
How to Cut a Cake, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006.
Why Beauty is Truth, Basic Books, New York 2007.
Game, Set & Math, Dover, New York [reprint] 2007.
Research grants:
EPSRC Resonant Hopf Bifurcations & Applications (01/04/2002 - 30/09/2002)
EPSRC Network Dynamics (Martyn Parker) (01/03/2004 - 28/02/2007)
For more information and further publications see Ian Stewart's University Webpage

