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Ian Stewart

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Warwick University

Ian Stewart is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Warwick University in the UK. His latest book is Do Dice Play God (2019).

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Aerial photo of a busy pedestrian zebra crossing with people walking in various directions, surrounded by pavements and cars.

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Mathematics

Social physics

Despite the vagaries of free will and circumstance, human behaviour in bulk is far more predictable than we like to imagine

Ian Stewart