One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism…

- Ian Stewart

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

- Ian Stewart

Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of …

- Ian Stewart

I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to con…

- Ian Stewart

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

- Ian Stewart

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible pi…

- Ian Stewart

Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something…

- Ian Stewart

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon wheth…

- Ian Stewart

The power of equations lies in the philosophically difficult correspondence between mathematics, a collective creation of human minds, and an externa…

- Ian Stewart