Professor Stewart's Hoard Of Mathematical Treasures - Plot & Excerpts
. . When I was fourteen, I started collecting mathematical curiosities. I’ve been doing that for nearly fifty years now, and the collection has outgrown the original notebook. So when my publisher suggested putting together a mathematical miscellany, there was no shortage of material. The result was Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities. Cabinet was published in 2008, and, as Christmas loomed, it began to defy the law of gravity. Or perhaps to obey the law of levity. Anyway, by Boxing Day it had risen to number 16 in a well-known national bestseller list, and by late January it had peaked at number 6. A mathematics book was sharing company with Stephenie Meyer, Barack Obama, Jamie Oliver and Paul McKenna. This was, of course, completely impossible: everyone knows that there aren’t that many people interested in mathematics. Either my relatives were buying a huge number of copies, or the conventional wisdom needed a rethink. So then I got an email from my publisher asking whether there might be any prospect of a sequel, and I thought, ‘My suddenly famous Cabinet is still bursting at the seams with goodies, so why not?’ Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical Treasures duly emerged from darkened drawers into the bright light of day.
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