Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

When he was fourteen, Ian Stewart, one of the best known mathematicians alive, started a maths notebook. Like a magpie he collected every interesting thing he could find out about the maths that wasn't taught at school. His notebook became six, then spilled over into Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities.

Open its drawers and discover a fabulous lifetime collections of games, puzzles, stories, jokes and factoids, odd items of mathematical culture, card tricks, things to make and things to do. You will find out why the M25 is shorter anti- clockwise than clockwise, and what the deal is with Fermat's last theorem, chaos theory, fractals and Penrose patterns - and the real reason you can't divide anything by zero.

For seasoned aficionados and adventurous novices alike, nothing can compete with Professor Stewart's tasty assortment of numerical nibbles.