Cows in the Maze

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, and Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick. An active research mathematician, he is also a well-known popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for furthering the public understanding of science; his book Nature's Numbers was shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books; and he delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His many books include Evolving the Alien (with Jack Cohen), The Science of Discworld, What Shape is a Snowflake? , Flatterland, The Magical Maze, Does God Play Dice? , and How to Cut a Cake.

1. Walking with Quadrupeds ; 2. Forward to the Future ; 3. Back to the Past ; 4. What Shape is a Teardrop? ; 5. Tiling Space With Knots ; 6. The Interrogator's Fallacy ; 7. Cows in the Maze ; 8. Knight's Tours on Rectangles ; 9. The Lore and Lure of Dice ; 10. Cat's Cradle Calculus Challenge ; 11. Glass Klein Bottles ; 12. Cementing Relationships ; 13. Dances with Dodecahedra ; 14. Cone with a Twist ; 15. Most-Perfect Magic Squares ; 16. It Can't Be Done! ; 17. Knotting Ventured, Knotting Gained ; 18. Making Winning Connections ; 19. Jumping Champions ; 20. Pursuing Polygonal Privacy