GENERAL MATHS BOOKS

Here are a few tasters to whet your appetite....more to come soon. If you'd like to know more about these books or order them on-line please click on the bookcover image.

Fearful Symmetry by Ian Stewart
Symmetry is one of the most powerful and wide-ranging of mathematical ideas with recent work on symmetry breaking, when symmetrical patterns are slightly altered or corrupted, throwing up an extraordinary range of applications and natural examples, from the stripes on a tiger's back to the territorial patterns of fish and to the structure of viruses. This book looks at the applications of symmetry and symmetry breaking to subjects as diverse as weather patterns, crystal structures, the buckling of beams and particle physics

 
The Magical Maze by Ian Stewart
Structured on the image of a maze representing the network of connected mathematical ideas that have proved so powerful and effective in understanding the natural world, this book is an expansion and development of the author's 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture.