Stories by Ian Stewart

Easter is a Quasicrystal

Reveals the divine mathematics of a holiday

Pursuing Polygonal Privacy

Ian Stewart proves that good fences make good neighbors

Dots-and-Boxes for Experts

Ian Stewart reveals the secret subtleties of a children's game

Jumping Champions

Ian Stewart Leaps over the gaps between prime numbers

Spiral Slime

Ian Stewart finds mathematics in creatures great and small

Million-Dollar Minesweeper

Ian Stewart explains how a computer game can make you rich

Hex Marks the Spot

Ian Stewart shows how to make some winning connections

A Fractal Guide to Tic-Tac-Toe

Ian Stewart finds a familiar shape in unexpected places

Knotting Ventured...

Ian Stewart shows how pieces of string can illustrate the principles of symmetry

Paradox Lost

Careful analysis can untangle some logical conundrums, says Ian Stewart

Rep-Tiling the Plane

A new method makes it easy to generate intricate designs, explains Ian Stewart

Counting the Cattle of the Sun

Some problems are too big to solve by trial and error, says Ian Stewart

A Strategy for Subsets

Real and Virtual Sculptures

Impossibility Theorems

Defend the Roman Empire!

Most-Perfect Magic Squares

Cone with a Twist

Dances with Dodecahedra

Sierpinski's Ubiquitous Gasket