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Ian Stewart – Reaching for the Extreme

Ian Stewart Reaching for the Extreme review and information book about how the quest for the biggest, fewest and weirdest makes maths. Profile Books will publish this book by Ian Stewart, the British mathematician on February 12 in 2026.

Ian Stewart Reaching for the Extreme review

  • “Britain’s most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths.” (Alex Bellos)
  • “A testament to the versatility of maths and how it is shaping our understanding of the world.” (Guardian)
  • “Ian Stewart shows us how maths makes the world – and the rest of the universe – go round.” (Professor Steven Strogatz, Cornell University)

Ian Stewart Reaching for the Extreme

Reaching for the Extreme

How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths

  • Author: Ian Stewart (England)
  • Book type: mathematics book
  • Publisher: Profile Books
  • To be released: 12 February 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: £ 22.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb Ian Stewart book about the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest in Maths

A journey through some of mathematics’ prickliest conundrums – and why they matter.

How much land can you enclose inside a given border? To colour in a map so that no region shares a shade, what is the minimum number of colours you can use? What is the shortest route between two cities? And what’s the best strategy for a prisoner’s dilemma?

These questions have something in common: they are about extremes. Shortest lines, smallest areas, least energy, fewest colours. These issues have given birth to many of the deepest and most important areas of mathematics and are more than mere thought experiments – their applications range from Dido’s founding of the city of Carthage to contemporary satellite navigation systems.

From soap bubbles to the cosmos, Reaching for the Extreme tells the fascinating stories of mathematicians’ quest for extremes – their historical roots, the struggles to solve them, and how the results have changed our lives.

Ian Stewart was born 24 September 1945 in Folkestone, England. He is  Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and the author of the bestseller Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities. His recent books include Do Dice Play God?, Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians, Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, Professor Stewart’s Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries and Calculating the Cosmos. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Britse geschiedenis, Engelse geschiedenis, Engelse historicus, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Alwyn Turner – A Shellshocked Nation

Alwyn Turner A Shellshocked Nation review and information book about Britain between the wars. Profile Books will publish this book by Alwyn Turner, the British historian on January 22 in 2026.

Alwyn Turner A Shellshocked Nation review

  • “An admirable analysis of this most misunderstood – yet most relevant – period of British history.” (Simon Jenkins)
  • “A sparkling account of popular culture in Britain between the wars, embracing Gracie Fields and George Formby as well as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.” (Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government, King’s College, London)
  • “This is just glorious: almost every page stops you dead with insight into a world at once utterly strange, yet still living somewhere within us all.” (James Hawes)

Alwyn Turner A Shellshocked Nation

A Shellshocked Nation

  • Author: Alwyn Turner (England)
  • Book type: British history of the interbellum
  • Publisher: Profile Books
  • To be released: 22 January 2026
  • Length: 384 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize: £ 25.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the book about Britain between the Wars

A fresh and inventive social history of interwar Britain, from Armistice and the Spanish flu to the announcement of war.

After the calamity of the Great War, there was a desire in Britain for escapist fun – the lights of the Jazz Age, radio comedies and the pictures were a welcome respite from the grim reality of the Great Depression. Yet the storm clouds were gathering, and Britain between the wars was a turbulent, restless place – and where the foundations of the modern nation were laid.

Combining cultural, social and political history, A Shellshocked Nation is the next instalment in Alwyn Turner’s highly original history of the twentieth century, sketching a portrait of the interwar nation through its entertainments and scandals, its people and political crises. From the General Strike to the BBC, Irish Home Rule and the rise of fascism, this is the definitive story of Britain’s most anxious era.

Alwyn Turner is a historian and writer who teaches at the University of Chichester. He is best known for his histories of twentieth-century Britain; All in it Together was a Sunday Times Book of the Year, and his last book, Little Englanders, Britain in the Edwardian Era, was a Times History Book of the Year.

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Roadnovel

Oana Aristide – Under the Blue

Oana Aristide Under the Blue recensie en informatie van deze nieuwe roadnovel en dubuutroman. Op 11 maart 2021 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Profile Books de debuutroman van de in Transsylvanië geboren schrijfster Oana Aristide. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondingd.

Oana Aristide Under the Blue recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Under the Blue. Het boek is geschreven door Oana Aristide. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de eerste roman van schrijfster Oana Aristide.

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Under the Blue

  • Schrijfster: Oana Aristide
  • Soort boek: roadnovel
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Profile Books
  • Verschijnt: 11 maart 2021
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van de roman van Oana Aristide

A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world?

Meanwhile two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Their baby is called Talos, and he is an advanced AI program. Every week they feed him data, starting from the beginning of written history, era by era, and ask him to predict what will happen next to the human race. At the same time they’re involved in a increasingly fraught philosophical debate about why human life is sacred and why the purpose for which he was built – to predict threats to human life to help us avoid them – is a worthwhile and ethical pursuit.

These two strands come together in a way that is always suspenseful, surprising and intellectually provocative: this is an extraordinarily prescient and vital work of fiction – an apocalyptic road novel to frighten and thrill.

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